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Pedersen, Elray L. – 1978
A total of 113 seventh grade students participated in a study to test the effectiveness of sentence combining practice as a means to significantly improve syntactic and semantic fluency in student writing. Methods included pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest t-unit analyses of syntactic fluency, and four pretest and posttest analyses of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Language Acquisition