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Download full textWan Jusoh, Wan Nur Aida Sakinah; Abdul Jobar, Norfaizah; Md Yusoff, Md Zahril Nizam – Online Submission, 2022
This literature review looked at relevant research articles published in reputable journals from 2018 to 2022 to try to shed light on the areas: (1) Implications of using thematic progression pattern to improve the coherence and unity of student essays; and (2) The effects of thematic problems using the thematic progression approach in the…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Improvement, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Vande Kopple, William J. – 1982
Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that a paragraph composed of sentences with identical or closely related topics would be easier to read than one whose sentence topics were only remotely related. The first experiment involved subjective judgments by 131 high school students on the readability of two paragraphs identical in…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Vande Kopple, William J. – 1981
To test the hypothesis that paragraphs composed of sentences with identical or closely related topics (the grammatical subject and its adjuncts) would be easier to read than a paragraph whose sentence topics were only remotely related, two experiments on the readability of paragraphs were conducted. The first experiment involved subjective…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Connected Discourse
