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Willig, Judith B. – 1985
A practicum provided 10th- grade students in 2 English honors classes with direct instruction in sentence combining. The goal of the program was to increase the syntactic complexity of student writing, to have students express more in each sentence. Instruction was approached from different aspects. The students worked with two textbooks on…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grammar, High Schools, Sentence Combining
Download full textArgall, Rebecca S. – 1982
With evidence supporting the belief that as a way of decreasing errors sentence combining offers a number of advantages for developmental writing students, a college composition instructor gave 19 developmental writing students five weeks of concentrated sentence combining study with no other instruction or writing practice. The sessions…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation
Castro, Caridad; And Others – 1988
A project followed the development of a curriculum of editing assignments used to bridge the gap between Miami-Dade Community College students' passive command of grammatical rules and active use of them in their writing. Assumptions and strategies used in developing the curriculum included: (1) the idea that editing must be seen as a part of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College English, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Hayes, Mary F., Ed.; And Others – 1983
Prepared by classroom teachers, the papers in this collection synthesize their own teaching experiences with recent writing research revelations. Among the topics covered in the 37 papers are (1) computers in the English classroom, (2) values clarification and the teaching of autobiographical writing, (3) using journals, (4) grammar instruction,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cerebral Dominance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Writing
