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Barton, Ellen; Halter, Ellen; McGee, Nancy; McNeilley, Lisa – Written Communication, 1998
Studies predominant types and patterns of awkward sentences in student writing. Suggests that four types of syntactic problems--mismanagement of clause structure in errors of embedding, of syntax shift, of parallel structure, and of direct/indirect speech--are associated with patterns of semantic problems. Suggests pedagogical approaches for these…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Semantics, Sentence Structure

Matsuhashi, Ann; Quinn, Karen – Written Communication, 1984
Reviews discourse analytic and text comprehension studies for their contributions to a cognitive process view of writing, then reports on a study that combines discourse analysis with online pause data to determine how semantic propositions reflect sentence-level planning patterns. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing