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Peer reviewedStalter, William – College Composition and Communication, 1978
The structure of any and all written discourse can be described using four basic relationships (those implied by "therefore,""but,""and then," and "and") and three combined relations between sentences and clusters of sentences. (DD)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Relationship
PDF pending restorationLeTourneau, Mark S. – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
This paper proposes that a metaphor of linguistic levels, similar to that used in general linguistic theory, be applied to the study of levels within an essay. The linguistic conception of levels in a piece of writing is not sentence-paragraph-essay (which might be characterized as a rhetorical division) but rather (or in addition to)…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Definitions, Discourse Analysis
