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Dawkins, John – 1994
The punctuation system presented in this paper has explanatory power insofar as it explains how good writers punctuate. The paper notes that good writers have learned, through reading, the differences among a hierarchy of marks and acquired a sense of independent clauses that allows them to use the hierarchy, along with a reader-sensitive notion…
Descriptors: Authors, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Punctuation
Mitchell, Ruth – 1981
Researchers in many disciplines dislike writing and view it as an additional and unnecessary irritant. Teaching researchers to write for administrators who must make decisions about highly specialized topics, but who lack the specialist's knowledge, means inducing a change in the researchers' perspective. They have to learn that they are writing…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Language Styles, Postsecondary Education, Research Reports

Jordan, Michael P. – Journal of Business Communication, 1982
Introduces and demonstrates the various ways that writers keep track of the main theme of the exposition and how they change signals to and from subtopics to maintain continuity in texts. Concludes with notes on teaching this material. (PD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Bratcher-Hoskins, Suzanne – 1984
Reading and writing are both creative acts of communication that use written language as a vehicle for meaning. A strong theoretical case for teaching the two processes concurrently can be built by examining points of contact between reading and writing. One such point is context concerns. The Communication Triangle model (author/audience/…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Lang, Frederick K. – 1984
James Joyce's use of interior monologue (the interior self of the character is given directly, as though the reader were overhearing an articulation of the stream of thought and feeling flowing through the character's mind) can help basic writers in developmental classes. Students can be given excerpts from Joyce and asked to turn the sentence…
Descriptors: Authors, Basic Skills, Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education
Hartnett, Carolyn G. – 1986
Basic writers often experience difficulties when trying to articulate ideas in writing that are more specific, systematic, and fully developed than their speech. The writers must learn how to put their thinking into the appropriate forms and expressions necessary to address an academic audience. Noting that the natural working of the human mind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cohesion (Written Composition), Conjunctions

Myers, Sharon – TESL-EJ, 1997
Based on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' documented preference for error correction and the need for word usage and sentence grammar to become automatic, this article describes the rationale and procedures for using reformulation as composition feedback. The procedures are aimed at improving sentence level grammar. Discusses survey…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback, Grammar

Dick, John A. R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews over 50 textbooks grouped into three categories: (1) workbooks; (2) sentence style books, most of which use sentence combining as the fundamental type of exercise; and (3) copy books, which are used by directly copying passages with signals for particular changes. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Evaluation, Grammar, Higher Education