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Robinson, Constance Frazier – 1978
A study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of a new rhetoric program of composition instruction for secondary school students. The lessons used in the program were designed to provide students with a step-by-step procedure for moving from a topic sentence to a unified, coherent paragraph. Using the primacy of the topic sentence, they led…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Rhetoric

Kent, Thomas L. – Journal of Business Communication, 1984
Presents a strategy for teaching paragraph cohesion based on the "given-new contract" theory of information transfer that explains why and how to construct unified and cohesive paragraphs. (PD)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education, Paragraph Composition