Presents a theory and model of the paragraph which is useful in teaching students to make generalizations about paragraph structure. (DD)

Paper written at a linguistic workshop at Ukarumpa, E.H.D., Territory of New Guinea; research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, July 1968-January 1971, and supported in part by National Science Foundation grants. (DD)

Paper written at a linguistic workshop held at Nasuli, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Philippines, May-July 1971, and conducted by Joseph E. Grimes (Cornell Univ.) and the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research partially funded by National Science Foundation. (DD)

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…

This study examined "signals" of relationships between sentences that might be helpful in teaching reading to non-native speakers of English. Logical relationships were given special attention and classified to determine if they could be contained within a limited list to be used for teaching purposes. Five hundred paragraphs (2,720 sentences)…

This report presents a summary of the research designed to develop a psycholinguistics of comprehension and memory for meaningful written prose paragraphs. The approach departs from most previous ones by seeking to formulate an explicit theory, instead of relying on informal qualitative judgments as to paragraph structure, the scoring of data, and…

To teach students how to write in a contemporary style, a secondary-school English teacher must be able to describe adequately the kind of writing he expects. Since many modern writers frequently ignore the guidelines proffered in traditional writing handbooks, the "new rhetoric"--a descriptive approach to composition that substitutes…

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…