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Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Jill; Spiegel, Dixie Lee – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Examined the relationship between cohesion and coherence in children's writing and investigated the degree to which this relationship would vary with quality of writing and grade level. Concludes that the relationship between cohesion and coherence did not vary according to quality of writing or grade level. (SRT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedSpiegel, Dixie Lee; Fitzgerald, Jill – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Examines the relationship between cohesion and coherence in children's writing. Finds evidence of a relationship between cohesion and coherence, and reports that this relationship (1) varies according to text content; (2) does not vary according to quality of writing; and (3) does not vary according to the students' grade level. (KEH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedLanger, Judith A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Investigates the relationship between topic-specific background knowledge and measures of overall quality, coherence, syntactic complexity, audience, and function in the expository writing of tenth grade students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Grade 10
