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Morenberg, Max – 1981
When the literature and the research results on sentence combining are analyzed, they seem to provide an expanded meaning of sentence combining and reasons for its effects on the writing of some students. Gains in syntactic maturity alone do not explain why sentence combining affects positively the writing of some students, nor does the fact that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Paragraph Composition, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure
Manitoba Literacy Workers' Alliance, Winnipeg. – 1990
Literacy instruction materials developed by literacy workers are presented. Most of the materials are intended for a variety of student proficiency levels; one is intended for teachers. The first four sets, all illustrated with photographs, include a story about playing the lottery, the description of a shopping trip for jeans and shoes, a…
Descriptors: Banking, Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries, Independent Reading
Daiker, Donald A., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Drawn from a conference that addressed the role of sentence combining in the teaching of writing, the papers in this collection are divided into three sections: the theory of sentence combining, research in sentence combining, and sentence combining in the classroom. The 22 papers discuss a variety of topics, including the following: (1) sentence…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition