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Minot, Walter S. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
An assignment to write a comment in less than fifty words encourages conciseness and precision. (JH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation, Literary Styles, Semantics
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Brostoff, Anita – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Suggests that teaching students to achieve coherence involves teaching them what it means to plan and to move up and down a hierarchy of abstraction as well as teaching them to build cohesive links into their writing. Describes a program for teaching coherence. (RL)
Descriptors: Coherence, College English, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
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Solomon, Martha – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Higher Education, Nouns
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Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Guidelines for connecting the rhetorical principles taught by Francis Christensen with concepts from sentence-combining in a plan to help students learn to invent and develop sentences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
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Holloway, Dale W. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Describes three semantic theories for teaching the writing process (case grammars, the "given-new" contract, and cohesion), with their implications for helping students communicate more effectively with their audiences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cohesion (Written Composition), Grammar, Higher Education
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Ross, Janet – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research, English Instruction
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Vande Kopple, William J. – College Composition and Communication, 1982
Reports of research on using different patterns for connecting sentences. Shows the importance of applying insights from text linguistics to writing instruction. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), High School Students