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Peer reviewedWilliams, Joseph M. – College English, 1979
The clearest writing style is one in which the grammatical structures of a sentence most redundantly support the perceived semantic structure; a textured style is one in which the syntactic complexity invests a sentence with distinctive force. (DD)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Styles
