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Peer reviewedCrowhurst, Marion – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Examines research studies that provide a useful basis for assessing what teachers may realistically expect from sentence combining. Divides those expectations into two categories: those relating to increased syntactic fluency and those relating to the improvement of writing quality. (HTH)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Sentence Combining, Student Improvement
Peer reviewedWitte, Stephen P. – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Explores (l) the role of pre-text in translating ideas into linguistic forms, and (2) the relationship of translating and pre-text in the planning and reviewing process. Suggests four observations worthy of further study concerning the nature and function of pre-text. (NH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
