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Lieberman, David – 1987
One of the goals of writing instruction is to teach students to develop coherence in their writing; however, writing instruction that relies too heavily on logical connections and organizational techniques often introduces so many rules that students lose their personal connection to what they write. Coherence has less to do with structure than…
Descriptors: Coherence, Expository Writing, Identification (Psychology), Logical Thinking
Feinberg, Susan – 1983
To determine if using visual patterns can help technically oriented people create coherent papers, 97 students enrolled in a beginning composition class were given five hours of instruction in the use of the "hub and spokes" (central idea supported by examples), "S-curve" (pro-con), and pyramid (inductive or deductive) formats. Holistic…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing
Download full textLanger, Judith A. – 1983
A study examined the effect of topic-specific background knowledge on the general quality and local coherence of student writing. Ninety-seven tenth grade students were assigned two writing tasks on specific topics at two points during a semester. J. Langer's measure of topic-specific knowledge was administered prior to each writing task. Each…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Coherence, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10
McLean, James I. – 1985
An experiment was designed to test an instrument that could assist writers and editors in selecting strategies for improving the comprehensibility of written instructions. In addition, the study examined how successful professional writers are in improving passages selected for difficulty. The subjects, 150 experienced writers, were given an…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication Research, Formative Evaluation
Daiker, Donald A., Ed.; And Others – 1985
The 23 original essays on sentence combining in this volume range in focus from classroom methodology and effectiveness, through theoretical issues and syntactic constructions, to current issues in the field. The essays and their authors are as follows: (1) "The Role of the Elaborated Dominant Nominal in the Measurement of Conceptual and…
Descriptors: Coherence, Epistemology, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Enkvist, Nils Erik, Ed. – 1985
A selection of the papers from a symposium on the application of linguistic concepts to teaching composition are contained in this document. The papers and authors are as follows: "Introduction: Coherence, Composition, and Text Linguistics" (Nils Erik Enkvist); "TUAP and the Teaching of Writing in Sweden" (Lennart Bjork): "Discourse-Level…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
