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Download full textOwusu, Edward – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
There are a number of functions paragraphs play in discourse studies. For example, it encourages a writer to give adequate focus to the various aspects of his or her message; and it facilitates the identification of one idea in an essay to another idea. Some classical second language writers (for example: Stern, 1976; Halliday & Hasan, 1976;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Paragraph Composition, Discourse Analysis
Tickoo, 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
