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Peer reviewedGrady, Michael – English Journal, 1972
Some suggestions as to how to transfer training from narration and description to exposition, and how to extend Christensen principles to deal with the whole composition. (Author)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Generative Grammar, Literary Styles
Christensen, Francis – 1967
This collection of essays on literary composition sets forth rhetorical principles formulated from a close inductive study of contemporary American prose. The first essay develops a system of analyzing sentences by structural levels and outlines a generative rhetoric for the sentence consisting of the processes of "addition,""direction of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Writing
