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Download full textDavis, Wes – Online Submission, 2006
This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that Francis Christensen's "Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence" (1967) would have on overall writing quality and the number of subordinate clauses attached to the main independent clauses for more complex sentences in college freshmen's essays. In the experimental group of 42 students,…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Experimental Groups, College Freshmen, Sentences
