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Download full textLaing, Donald – 1985
To determine the syntactic maturity of eighth grade Canadian students' writing, all the students in four eighth grade classes were asked to write two compositions--one narrative and one argumentative--two weeks apart. The syntactic maturity level of the resulting 81 narrative compositions and 82 written arguments was compared with the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
