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Kenkel, James; Yates, Robert – Journal of Basic Writing, 2003
Presents a developmental perspective on text construction, understood as managing information within and across sentence boundaries. Claims that the systematicity in non-standard constructions in basic writer's texts reflects student awareness of three obligatory areas of information management in texts: topic management, reference tracking, and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education