Specificity in Context: Some Difficulties for the Inexperienced Writer.

MacDonald, Susan Peck

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ERIC Number: EJ333008

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Publication Date: 1986

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Specificity in Context: Some Difficulties for the Inexperienced Writer.

MacDonald, Susan Peck

College Composition and Communication, v37 n2 p195-203 May 1986

Explores the complexity of the concept "specificity," then looks at some of the misinterpretations made by developmental writers to illustrate how developmental writing students have difficulty moving from abstract to concrete. (HTH)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Remedial Instruction, Writing Difficulties, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes

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Language: English

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