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Peer reviewedRuprecht, Alvina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
Several pedagogical approaches are described that aid at in-depth understanding of the journalistic text by examining the way the journalist's discourse functions. By demystifying the discourse, the instructor makes the learner aware of the mechanisms of manipulation and orientation at the journalist's disposal. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Language Patterns, Language Skills, Language Usage
Lindeberg, Ann-Charlotte – 1984
A study to find patterns of cohesion and rhetorical structure that distinguish good from weak English essay writing is described. The corpus consisted of ten Swedish college essays written as part of the final exam in a first-year English course. Methodological problems encountered included the delimitation of units for the analysis of cohesive…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Comparative Analysis
