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Nelson, Robert J.; Stalter, William – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1972
Author suggests that pupils will write more coherent and unified compositions if they are taught to look for the logical connection between parts, looking to see if two parts are joined by an and" relationship, an and then" relationship, a but" relationship, a more specifically" relationship or a therefore" relationship. (PD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Expository Writing, Literary Criticism
Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – Community College Journalist, 1979
Points out that writing errors of journalism students can result from faulty thought patterns involving thinking in sentence fragments, personifying objects, using bureaucratic abstractions, and condensing complex ideas; examines ways of dealing with bureaucratic coding and compressed sentences. (Conclusion of a two-part article.) (GT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Higher Education, Journalism Education
Gibson, Walker – 1978
Readers are "dumb" because they are not privy to the mind and intentions of the writer; and the failure of the unsuccessful writer is a failure to forecast what it is going to be like to be a dumb reader of the document. Sample sentences from students' writing illustrate the following types of writing problems, which force the reader to examine…
Descriptors: Audiences, Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Higher Education
Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – Community College Journalist, 1978
Points out that writing errors of journalism students can result from faulty thought patterns involving thinking in sentence fragments, personifying objects, using bureaucratic abstractions, and condensing complex ideas; examines ways of dealing with sentence fragments and personification. (First of a two-part article.) (GT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
Suhor, Charles – 1978
Sentence combining (SC) has proved to be valuable in increasing the syntactic maturity of students. However, teachers have felt uncomfortable with the arhetorical nature of SC. Little research has been done on the relation of cognitive processes and SC. SC might be more useful if account is taken of the fact that syntax is an abode for cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Research Needs
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Benton, Stephen L.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Investigates the relative effectiveness of two adjunct questioning techniques employed to increase writers' elaboration. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Questioning Techniques
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Reed, W. Michael; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
Investigates the effects of writing ability and mode of discourse on cognitive capacity engagement across three stages of the composing process, noting that writing ability differentially affected cognitive capacity engagement across discourse modes when using the secondary-task method. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Hartnett, Carolyn G. – 1986
Basic writers often experience difficulties when trying to articulate ideas in writing that are more specific, systematic, and fully developed than their speech. The writers must learn how to put their thinking into the appropriate forms and expressions necessary to address an academic audience. Noting that the natural working of the human mind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cohesion (Written Composition), Conjunctions
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Xiao, Yun – Heritage Language Journal, 2006
Studies from information-processing and language comprehension research have reported that background knowledge facilitates reading and writing. By comparing Chinese language development of heritage students who had home background in Chinese language and culture with those who did not, this study found that heritage learners did significantly…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Writing Skills, Vocabulary Development
Hittleman, Daniel R. – 1983
As human understanding is largely metaphorical, what metaphor is, how children use it, and how they can be taught to use it more effectively are important educational concerns. A direct or indirect comparison between two apparently unlike things, metaphor consists of a topic, a vehicle of comparison, and ground--or traits--linking the topic and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues
Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – 1978
Most of the mechanical and content errors in the sentences written by journalism students can be attributed to four faulty patterns that can be traced to errors in the thinking process: fragmented sentence parts, personification, bureaucratic coding ("officialese"), and compressed sentences. While acceptable in spoken communication where…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Error Analysis (Language)
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Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1972
This quarterly newsletter includes a variety of articles on the teaching of English as a second language. The first article discusses the use of the enquiry method and problem solving as classroom procedures. This approach involves the development of four cognitive processes: framing questions, imposing order on data, making extrapolations, and…
Descriptors: Body Language, Class Activities, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes