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Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – 1978
Most of the mechanical and content errors in the sentences written by journalism students can be attributed to four faulty patterns that can be traced to errors in the thinking process: fragmented sentence parts, personification, bureaucratic coding ("officialese"), and compressed sentences. While acceptable in spoken communication where…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Error Analysis (Language)
