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Download full textChristensen, Francis; And Others – College Composition and Communication, 1966
Three authors comment upon each other's views as expressed in previous articles on the paragraph. Francis Christensen discusses the "sentence-based" theory and compares it to other descriptions of the paragraph. A.L. Becker compares Christensen's and Paul Rodgers' views and discusses their major differences in (1) identity and variation in…
Descriptors: Conferences, English, English Instruction, Grammar
Christensen, Francis – 1967
This collection of essays on literary composition sets forth rhetorical principles formulated from a close inductive study of contemporary American prose. The first essay develops a system of analyzing sentences by structural levels and outlines a generative rhetoric for the sentence consisting of the processes of "addition,""direction of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Writing
