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Peer reviewedHagen, Lyman B. – Research In The Teaching Of English, 1971
Ascertaining that the college freshman and professional writing he analyzed did not differ significantly in the rank order or frequency with which transitional devices were used in description, author advises that it may be a waste of time to teach high school and college students these devices as if they were not already a basic component of…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Persuasive Discourse, Research
