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Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Written words are laid out in space and exist on the page all at once, but a reader can only read a few words at a time. For readers, written words are trapped in the medium of time. So how can we best organize writing for readers? Traditional techniques of organization tend to stress the arrangement of parts in space and certain metadiscoursal…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Arts, Time, Scientific Concepts