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Peer reviewedBrostoff, Anita – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Suggests that teaching students to achieve coherence involves teaching them what it means to plan and to move up and down a hierarchy of abstraction as well as teaching them to build cohesive links into their writing. Describes a program for teaching coherence. (RL)
Descriptors: Coherence, College English, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Peer reviewedMeyer, Bonnie J. F. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Explores findings from research on the psychology of reading that may confirm and enlarge upon both the importance of planning and the perceptions of plans in writing and reading. (RL)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education, Organization
Peer reviewedVande Kopple, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Reports of research on using different patterns for connecting sentences. Shows the importance of applying insights from text linguistics to writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), High School Students
