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Download full textChandler, Brennan W.; Bourget, Jessica L.; Reno, Emily A. – Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, 2021
The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice
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Direct linkButler, Paul – English Journal, 2011
About 10 years ago, Robert J. Connors's article "The Erasure of the Sentence" questioned the disappearance of writing style and examined the validity of some of the reasons given for its disappearance. Since that 2000 article, the study of style has undergone a kind of renaissance, with numerous books and articles on its uses in composition theory…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Creativity, Sentences, Teacher Role
Stabler, Edward P. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (1) "context sensitive rewrite" grammars with rules that depend on context; (2) "matching" grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language; (3) "copying" grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size;…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Context Effect, Generative Grammar
Quible, Zane K. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2006
Two types of sentence-level writing problems are often observed in student writing: (1) those that violate conventions of standard written English, such as subject-verb agreement errors and comma splices; and (2) those that involve a stylistic choice, such as beginning a sentence with an expletive structure like "There are" or using "if" rather…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Landwehr, John – 1980
The freshman composition course at Mayville State College (North Dakota) progresses from basic grammar to sentence combining to the development of expository writing skills based on the principles of generative rhetoric. The course begins with a brief review of grammar, emphasizing the phrase, clause, and sentence, and then moves on to the process…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Papay, Twila Yates – 1983
Students can improve their writing skills by studying grammar. In learning to apply a logical system in their analysis of sentence parts, for example, students develop mental discipline. This discipline can be strengthened through the grammatical analysis of their own papers. In these evaluations, which include error and stylistic analyses and a…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Structural Grammar, Traditional Grammar, Transformational Generative Grammar
