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Peer reviewedAnderson, Harry E., Jr.; Bashaw, W. L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1968
This experiment tested the hypothesis that stimulation in a given mode of discourse (e.g., the argumentative, or "A", mode of theme writing) will improve the quality of compositions written in that mode, but decrease the quality in another mode (e.g., the descriptive, or "D", mode). Ninety first-graders were required to write two themes in the "D"…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
