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D'Angelo, Frank J. – 1968
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…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
In a written discourse consisting of a string of "psychological paragraphs," there is in each such psychological paraqraph a "head" structure containing the topic which derives from the deep structure of the discourse. That "head" assertion differs from all other assertions in the psychological paragraph in that it carries new information. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Bander, Robert G. – 1971
This book has been written to help improve the composition skills of students of English as a second language or second dialect. It has been planned for students at the advanced secondary, college, and university levels who have had some previous training in English vocabulary and grammar; it is particularly suited for a one-semester course for…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Essays