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Ginger Gunter Collins – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Young adolescents should be able to write organized multi-paragraph compositions that develop a central idea and unfold in logical and sequential order, unified through the use of transitional words and phrases. In other words, the compositions should not just consist of a string of related sentences, but represent a dynamic text that has…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Paragraph Composition, Writing (Composition), Transformational Generative Grammar
Coste, Rosemarie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The surface-level experience of hypertextuality as formless and unbounded, blurring boundaries among texts and between readers and writers, is created by a deep structure which is not normally presented to readers and which, like the ultrastructure of living cells, defines and controls texts' nature and functions. Most readers, restricted to…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Internet, Reader Text Relationship, Differences
Davis, Wes – Online Submission, 2006
This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that Francis Christensen's "Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence" (1967) would have on overall writing quality and the number of subordinate clauses attached to the main independent clauses for more complex sentences in college freshmen's essays. In the experimental group of 42 students,…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Experimental Groups, College Freshmen, Sentences