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Peer reviewedBeaugrande, Robert de – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Uses 24 examples to demonstrate that a comprehensive generative stylistics can provide an interlocking method for describing and teaching writing strategies. (DD)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Grammar, Rhetoric, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedFaigley, Lester L. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes a study which found that generative rhetoric instruction produced a quantitative and qualitative increase in college students' syntactic maturity. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Ross, Janet – Literacy Discussion, 1972
Students of English as a second language, whose errors in writing result partly from lack of control over English transform patterns, should be taught to combine ideas through a transform process. (Author)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Kernel Sentences, Rhetoric, Sentence Structure
Download full textBorgh, Enola – 1972
Modern transformational grammars can be effective tools for writing, for they offer hypotheses and generalizations about English sentences which can be used in an infinite number of linguistic contexts. One writing skill which transformational grammars can help students achieve is the ability to choose between synonymous expressions. Some…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria, Rhetoric, Sentences
Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – 1978
A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
MOFFETT, JAMES – 1967
DRAMATIC INTERACTION, THE PRIMARY VEHICLE FOR DEVELOPING THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE, IS AN OFTEN UNEXPLOITED METHOD OF ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS. STUDENTS CAN LEARN ABOUT LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMPOSITION IN A COHERENT FASHION BY WRITING PLAYS, SHORT STORIES, AND POEMS, OR BY ACTING, INTERPRETING, AND CREATING DRAMA. THE…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Drama, Dramatics, English Instruction
KITZHABER, ALBERT R. – 1967
THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER, WITH THE COOPERATION OF STAFF MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON AND TEACHERS FORM SEVEN SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON, HAS WRITTEN AND TESTED AN EXPERIMENTAL CURRICULUM IN ENGLISH FOR GRADES 7-12 FOR APPROXIMATELY THE UPPER 70 PERCENT OF STUDENTS. THE CURRICULUM CONSISTS OF EXPERIMENTAL TEXTBOOKS IN…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Experimental Curriculum, Grammar
Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English. – 1966
Six papers presented at the 1966 Workshop of the English Association of Greater Milwaukee suggest that the "new rhetoric" has been shaped by fresh professional interest in ancient rhetoric, in the creative process, in the grammar of English, and in the scholarship of such men as I.A. Richards and Kenneth Burke. The papers are concerned with (1)…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Writing, Creativity, English Instruction
PDF pending restorationERIC 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 15 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: personal expressiveness in creative writing programs; generative rhetoric and writing performance; the effects of sentence combining exercises on syntactic…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Creative Writing, Doctoral Dissertations, Editing
