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Connors, Robert J. – College Composition and Communication, 2000
Examines the sentence-based pedagogies that arose in composition during the 1960s and 1970s (the generative rhetoric of Francis Christensen, imitation exercises, and sentence-combining) and attempts to discern why these three pedagogies have been so completely elided within contemporary composition studies. Concludes that this erasure of sentence…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education, Sentence Combining