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Download full textJacobs, Suzanne E. – 1977
This paper presents a passage written by a student and analyzes the way in which each sentence is or is not connected to those before it and after it, revealing the problems that cause the passage to lack coherence. The paper notes that, although this writer would have benefited from an opportunity to talk out her ideas (rather than a lesson in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
