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Johnson, Sabina Thorne – Coll Engl, 1969
An evaluative review of Francis Christensen's generative rhetoric theory and its application to teaching freshman composition. (DS)
Descriptors: Charts, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, English
National Council of Teachers of English, Champaign, IL. – 1966
Two articles on sentence construction and eight on the paragraph comprise this publication. Francis Christensen contributes four articles on (1) the use of loose, cumulative sentences, (2) sentence openers, with illustrations from Hemingway, (3) a generative rhetoric for the paragraph, and (4) the formation of principles of paragraph composition…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing
Christensen, Francis – 1967
This collection of essays on literary composition sets forth rhetorical principles formulated from a close inductive study of contemporary American prose. The first essay develops a system of analyzing sentences by structural levels and outlines a generative rhetoric for the sentence consisting of the processes of "addition,""direction of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Writing
