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Charpentier-Jiménez, William – Online Submission, 2020
This article studies students' use of sentence variety in an ESL writing course. The study includes three sentence features: (a) sentence types, (b) sentence combining, and (c) sentence patterns. Although sentence variety is part of the curriculum, the actual use of sentence structures has not been measured so far. By understanding students' use…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning

Thiesmeyer, John – 1984
Writing problems common among many college students are "phrasal" errors such as limited vocabulary, inability to distinguish standard usage from slang or jargon, a tendency to frame thoughts in cliches, a peppering of meaningless intensifiers, and a gift for redundancy and wordiness. To help correct these problems, a text-checking system called…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Editing, Error Patterns, Feedback
Coley, Joan Develin – 1982
Highlighting similarities in the processes of reading and writing can help teachers establish a more unified program allowing students to develop skills that transfer from one process to another. One activity to help students develop reading skills focuses on the "who, what, where, when" types of patterns that recur in sentences and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Patterns

Hull, Glynda – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Inexperienced writers, including both basic writers and learning disabled, commit errors that often follow a discernible pattern due to applying erroneous or incomplete rules. Techniques for teaching editing skills are described, including textual analyses of students' writing, interviews with students, structuring the editing task, and providing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns