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Faigley, Lester – Rhetoric Review, 1989
Argues that if the study of language is to become important again in the teaching of writing, it will be through an expanded notion of rhetoric that understands language as the site of struggle over socially produced meaning. (RAE)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Intellectual Disciplines, Language Research, Linguistics
Ney, James W.; Fillerup, Michael – 1980
The study was designed to test the effects of a limited amount of sentence-combining practice on the syntactic development and overall writing ability of foreign students. Participants were freshmen studying English as a second language during an eight-week period. Twenty-four students were divided into a control and an experimental group. The…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education