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Miller, Tyree Jones – 1972
The purpose of this study was to determine what effects the Christensen Rhetoric Program, a method of teaching sentence and paragraph development, had upon the attitudes of 43 black college freshmen just entering Tennessee State University and upon the persistence of these students in using free modifiers after a lapse of time and instruction.…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, Narration
Peer reviewedDavis, Anne S.; Witte, Stephen P. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
An analysis of descriptive and narrative passages written by 45 first-semester college freshmen early in the semester suggests that mean T-unit length is not a stable individual trait either within the descriptive mode or across description and narration. (GT)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Descriptive Writing, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
