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Peer reviewedMorenberg, Max; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Both in standard factors of syntactic maturity and in measures of overall writing quality, first year college students trained in sentence combining achieved significantly higher scores than students following a conventional curriculum. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
The treatment group of college freshmen, which worked with the Strong-Christensen sentence-combining materials during an intensive six-week period, scored significantly higher on two factors of syntactic maturity than the control group. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedMaimon, Elaine P.; Nodine, Barbara F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
Demonstrated effectiveness in eliciting growth in number of words per T-unit through the use of sentence-combining exercises in a college composition course and related frequency of embedding errors to data on length of T-unit. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Research, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
The experimental evidence on the value of a sentence-combining approach to improving reading comprehension is still sparse, but the possibilities seem rich.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
