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Perron, John D. – 1977
This is the fourth and final report in a series dealing with the impact of the modes of discourse (description, narration, exposition, and argumentation) on written syntactic complexity at the elementary school level. The first three reports dealt in turn with the three grade levels involved in the study (third, fourth, and fifth grades). This…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Language Acquisition
Download full textMills, Helen – 1973
As an alternative to the conflict among college composition teachers who are either repressive and authoritarian or permissive and lenient, a middle course offers teachers the latitude of encouraging free writing for some students and directed writing for other students, both of which may be responses to students' needs to express themselves. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction
Perron, John D. – 1977
Written syntactic complexity is considered in relation to the four modes of discourse (argumentation, exposition, narration, and description). In a study of 153 children at three ability ranges within each of three grade levels (three, four, and five), syntactic complexity was found to differ significantly across the modes. The range of syntactic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Writing, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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This paper suggests that a change in mode of expression --narrative, descriptive, or expository--can influence the syntactic complexity of children's writing. The implications of the research studies reviewed here may offer direction for education in general. Instructional strategies which make use of variation in writing mode to encourage gains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Writing, Difficulty Level
Perron, J.D. – 1976
This study investigates the effect of mode of expression on the syntactic complexity of writing produced by third-grade children. Approximately 200 samples of writing in the modes of argumentation, exposition, narration, and description were collected from 50 third graders in the Atlanta school district. Syntactic complexity, as measured by length…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Difficulty Level, Expository Writing, Grade 3
San Jose, Christine – 1974
A study of children's syntax from a transformational perspective was initiated to explore the following areas: syntactic differences between narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative writing, and the relation of these differences to IQ, sex, and reading comprehension; the relation of syntax content; and the relation of children's…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education
Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe – 1981
This report, designed especially for use by researchers, evaluators, and teachers, explores the practical implications of the composing process for writing instruction and assessment. An understanding of the actual process of text composition is presented as insights into how the acquisition of aspects of writing might be facilitated are explored.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Curriculum Design, Descriptive Writing
