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Download full textTickoo, Asha – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Two samples of college student writing, paragraphs from freshman compositions, are analyzed for presence or absence of two characteristics of literate prose, decontextualization and autonomy. Writing is decontextualized and autonomous when whatever is needed for its comprehension is included in the words of the text, and comprehension is not…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
