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Peer reviewedMinot, Walter S. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
An assignment to write a comment in less than fifty words encourages conciseness and precision. (JH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation, Literary Styles, Semantics
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
