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Myers, Sharon A. – College Composition and Communication, 2003
Echoes Robert J. Conners' call for a reexamination of sentence pedagogies in composition teaching. Offers an explanation of the unsolved mystery of why sentence combining improves student writing, using insights provided by work in contemporary research in linguistics and in language processing. Argues that educators invite words and phrases, the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement