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Correa, Doris; Domínguez, Camilo – HOW, 2014
Traditionally, at universities, English as a foreign language instructors have used a series of approaches to teach students how to write academic texts in English from both teacher preparation and regular programs. In spite of this, students continue to have problems writing the academic texts required of them in the different courses. Concerned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Schiffrin, Deborah – 1982
Analysis of the role of paraphrase in the cohesion of everyday oral discourse suggests that combining two methodological approaches to discourse analysis, using distribution of specific discourse elements and sequential relationships within discourse, creates a more empirical foundation for analysis, leading to a more accurate formulation of the…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
Peters, P. H. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Examines the lexis of two university students and identifies their styles and competence levels. (DF)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
In a written discourse consisting of a string of "psychological paragraphs," there is in each such psychological paraqraph a "head" structure containing the topic which derives from the deep structure of the discourse. That "head" assertion differs from all other assertions in the psychological paragraph in that it carries new information. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)