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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
Graves, Donald – Highway One, 1985
Discusses nine orthodoxies, including the idea that spelling, grammar, and punctuation are unimportant, that decrease teacher effectiveness. (DF)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Grammar
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Dick, John A. R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews over 50 textbooks grouped into three categories: (1) workbooks; (2) sentence style books, most of which use sentence combining as the fundamental type of exercise; and (3) copy books, which are used by directly copying passages with signals for particular changes. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Evaluation, Grammar, Higher Education
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Hull, Glynda – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Inexperienced writers, including both basic writers and learning disabled, commit errors that often follow a discernible pattern due to applying erroneous or incomplete rules. Techniques for teaching editing skills are described, including textual analyses of students' writing, interviews with students, structuring the editing task, and providing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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