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Creating the Memory of Unheard Sentences.

Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1979

Combining concepts of cognitive theory with those of rhetoric and linguistics can help writing teachers understand the kinds of activities that will enable basic writers to produce syntactic constructions appropriate for the content they have generated. A review of research studies of sentence combining, syntactic constructions, grammatical…

Descriptors: Higher Education, Kernel Sentences, Language Processing, Memory

Relationships Between Overall Quality and Seven Language Features in Compositions Written in Grades Seven, Nine, and Eleven.

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Jurgens, Sister Jeanne Marie; Griffin, William J. – 1970

Seven objective measures of language production--number of words, T-units, subordinate clauses, clauses of all types, words per clause, words per T-unit, and clauses per T-unit--were applied to 269 compositions written by seventh, ninth, and 11th graders to test assumptions about the relationships between quality of writing and students' age and…

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns