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Download full textSaddler, Bruce – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2006
In this article a method to improve sentence writing ability called sentence combining is explained. The potential effects of sentence combining are related and relevant research summarized. In addition, how to introduce sentence combining practice to a class, key instructional components including oral practice and peer assistance, sources of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Ability, Writing Improvement
Mellon, John C. – 1969
In an epilogue to the 1967 research report, "Transformational Sentence-Combining" (See ED 018 405.), John Mellon considers the significance of the sentence-combining experience and answers the charges of critics--Wayne O'Neil, James Moffett, and Francis Christensen--regarding his original research findings. Mellon points out, for example, that…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, English Instruction, Language Fluency
