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Teaching and Measuring Sentence Skills: The Importance of Length, Variability, Variety, and Punctuation.

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Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – 1978

A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…

Descriptors: College Freshmen, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric

Twelve Steps to Using Generative Sentences and Sentence Combining in the Composition Classroom.

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Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – College Composition and Communication, 1981

Guidelines for connecting the rhetorical principles taught by Francis Christensen with concepts from sentence-combining in a plan to help students learn to invent and develop sentences. (RL)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Generative Grammar, Higher Education