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Sodowsky, R. E.; Witte, S. P. – 1982
In an effort to examine the hierarchical relations in the development of discourse topics, the narrative-descriptive essays of 55 university freshmen were analyzed in terms of L. Lautamatti's five sentence types. In type 1, the initial element is in the position of the grammatical subject, and is the topical subject. In type 2, the topical and…
Descriptors: Classification, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing
