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PDF pending restorationLeTourneau, Mark S. – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
This paper proposes that a metaphor of linguistic levels, similar to that used in general linguistic theory, be applied to the study of levels within an essay. The linguistic conception of levels in a piece of writing is not sentence-paragraph-essay (which might be characterized as a rhetorical division) but rather (or in addition to)…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Definitions, Discourse Analysis
Download full textVande Kopple, William J. – 1977
Excerpts from articles in the "British Medical Journal" and "The American Journal of Medicine" were compared to determine which journal was easier to read and what stylistic traits might account for such ease. Nine paragraphs from the discussion sections of articles on hypertension were taken from each of the journals. When…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
