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Download full textScott, Robert Ian – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1969
Students who are taught to understand and apply Korzybski's uses of semantics to their writing will learn to write more concretely. As students locate words and descriptions vertically on Korzybski's scale of abstraction levels, they will become able to perceive how meanings change when descriptions become either more general or specific, to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication Skills, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis
