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Download full textFolta, Bernarr – 1969
Students in grades 4, 5, or 6 can learn to write more concretely, accurately, and deliberately by employing three strategies: (1) elimination of those words or phrases that garble meaning or repeat unnecessarily; (2) substitution of more specific, concrete, and generally more appropriate expressions for ones that are vague and unimaginative; and…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Folta, Bernarr – 1969
In teaching students to write for an audience, teachers should stress the meaning and purpose of the composition over rhetorical correctness and should emphasize style as well as content. Four teaching approaches through which students may establish and communicate their purposes are (1) "immediate feedback," in which teachers motivate pupils…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Elementary Education, Expository Writing
