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Download full textDavis, Wes; Mahoney, Kelley – Online Submission, 2005
This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that the testing of grammar and writing mechanics would have on the overall quality and reduction of errors in college students' essays for freshman composition. In the experimental group of 42 students, the professor assigned several exercises in grammar and mechanics as a review…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing (Composition), Testing, Freshman Composition
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
