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Hunt, Kellogg W. – Monogr Soc Res Child Develop, 1970
Investigates the differences in syntactical structure of sentences written by school children of different ages and of different abilities within the same grade. Writing of certain adults is also studied. (MH)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Structural Analysis, Structural Grammar
Schmeling, Herman Harold – 1969
This study had two aims: (1) to determine whether there were significant differences in the syntax of college freshmen compositions of different overall quality, and (2) to determine whether certain syntactic indexes of writing maturity functioned as indexes of the quality of freshman writing. Two writing samples were elicited from 99 freshmen at…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Analysis, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis
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Download full textChristensen, Francis; And Others – College Composition and Communication, 1966
Three authors comment upon each other's views as expressed in previous articles on the paragraph. Francis Christensen discusses the "sentence-based" theory and compares it to other descriptions of the paragraph. A.L. Becker compares Christensen's and Paul Rodgers' views and discusses their major differences in (1) identity and variation in…
Descriptors: Conferences, English, English Instruction, Grammar
Fry, Danny Janice Whitley – 1971
Two grammars (traditional and transformational) and two methods of teaching (direct and indirect) were measured to determine their effects upon the writing performance of students of low socioeconomic backgrounds. While the direct teaching of grammar was concerned with the correction of specific errors, the indirect teaching was concerned with a…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grade 9, Sentence Structure, Socioeconomic Status
Davidson, David M. – 1976
To help assess the writing ability of college freshmen studying English as a second language (ESL), this study was undertaken to identify particular structures of subordination associated with writing maturity and to develop a diagnostic instrument to test student control of those structures. Following sentence-generating principles of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: a transformational analysis of syntax in tenth-grade writing; the relationship between inner-city fifth graders' reading comprehension and writing achievement; the relationship of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style
