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Hutson, Barbara W.; Shub, Jeanne – 1974
Students at first, fourth, seventh, and tenth grade levels and at graduate levels chose conjunctions "and" and "but" in two-clause sentences with varying degrees of logical relationship, with similar or contrasting clauses. Grade, type of relationship, and similarity were variables in a 5 x 3 x 2 repeated measures analysis of response to logical…
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 4
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Crowhurst, Marion – 1978
Compositions in the narrative and argumentative modes of discourse were collected from 240 students (40 boys and 40 girls each from grades 6, 10, and 12) and analyzed for mean T-unit length to determine any differences in syntactic complexity across modes of discourse or grade levels. At each grade level, T-unit length was significantly greater in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research