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Download full textFrase, Lawrence T. – 1973
This study investigated subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences, as well as their ability to retain that information. Ninety-six college undergraduates were given three trials to learn the characteristics of ships from a text. Attributes of each ship were clustered together (name organization), or sentences…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Jackson, Virginia; Thiel, Maria – 1983
This book of supplemental exercises is one of a series of books designed to provide educational materials in addition to the instructional texts in the Adult Learning Skills Program. Exercises in this intermediate level book are for the English subject area. Course numbers and exercise topics are: 701 (subject/verb agreement, reversed subject…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adverbs, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
PDF pending restorationDrazdauskas, A.; Mikael'an, Galina – 1973
This manual attempts to establish a hierarchy or sequence within the study of syntax. It is to serve as a textbook, and has as its aim the discussion and explanation of the structure of the correct "properly formatted" sentence. The approach is to begin with "text" and gradually work down. This tendency to begin syntactic research with the global…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English
Anderson, Mary Lynn; Wrase, Judith – 1976
The foreign student in an American university must be able to communicate in English, orally and in writing, well enough to do college-level academic work. The college or university which admits foreign students has the responsibility either to require a certain level of English proficiency or to provide the means for the student to get the…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
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
Hines, Donna – 1984
This competency test package, one of a series of test packages for office occupations education, contains a list of performance objectives; a pool of objective questions matched with these performance objectives; a sample, 50-point objective test; and several performance test activities. The package also includes complete directions for the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Correspondence, Business Skills, Clerical Occupations
