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Ewoldt, Kathy Burns – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing is a difficult task for most students. Only 27% of all students in America can write proficiently at or above grade level (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2012). With the recent adoption of rigorous standards (i.e., Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards), secondary students are…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Expository Writing, Paragraph Composition
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Grady, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Author extends Christensen's theories on paragraph development to formulate a sequence of development for longer compositions, and includes diagrams of sample sequences. (SP)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Models, Paragraph Composition, Rhetoric
Waldron, Karen A. – Pointer, 1987
The article describes a secondary-level curriculum for written expression based on a linguistic model. Directed toward learning disabled adolescents, the method teaches sentence and paragraph construction based on verbal and written models presented by the teacher. Writing good sentences, paragraphs, and essays is presented as a logical extension…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Essays, Expository Writing, Expressive Language