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Download full textLawlor, Joseph – 1981
With particular focus on the need to provide a practical, systematic introduction to the concept of sentence combining and to the signals used to control the various combining operations, this paper provides detailed specifications for including sentence combining as part of a comprehensive plan for teaching the composing process. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Blount, Nathan S.; And Others – 1969
Compositions of 1000 words were collected from 32 eighth-graders and 32 twelfth-graders in Manitowac, Wisconsin. In each grade, 16 males and 16 females were equally distributed into two ability groups based on IQ. Data from the writing samples were analyzed with an analysis of variance in which the factors were grade, sex, and ability level. The…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Smith, Vernon H. – 1984
To see what effects practice--frequent writing without teacher correction--would have on the writing of students in grades one and two in one small elementary school, writing samples were collected from all pupils at each grade level in October and May. Five factors were examined: general impression, length, vocabulary, spelling, and syntactic…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Language Acquisition
