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Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Watson, Annabel; Lines, Helen – Literacy, 2013
The place of grammar within the teaching of writing has long been contested and successive research studies have indicated no correlation between grammar teaching and writing attainment. However, a recent study has shown a significant positive impact on writing outcomes when the grammar input is intrinsically linked to the demands of the writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grammar, Literacy Education, English Instruction
Elder, Cristyn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Much of the literature in the field of rhetoric and composition narrates the stories of writers and their writing as told by teachers, administrators, and researchers. In an effort to bring writers' voices to the forefront of these stories, this empirical study examines the types of questions and concerns writers have about writing as…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing (Composition), Writing Attitudes, Rhetoric
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Robert, Esther – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the language of advertisement in selected newspapers and magazines; from the aspect of graphology and lexis of "The Nation Newspaper" and "Newswatch Magazine" respectively. This work is based on the framework of stylistics. Through this study, it is discovered that the language of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Reporting, Advertising, Language Usage
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Jabulani, Sibanda – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The study reports on challenges related to the use of the language of attribution in academic essay writing by Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students at Rhodes University, as a microcosm of similar challenges faced by university students elsewhere. The study content-analysed 150 essays written by 50 PGCE students taking the course…
Descriptors: Essays, Teaching Methods, College Students, Course Descriptions
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Varnhagen, Connie K.; McFall, G. Peggy; Pugh, Nicole; Routledge, Lisa; Sumida-MacDonald, Heather; Kwong, Trudy E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
Written communication in instant messaging, text messaging, chat, and other forms of electronic communication appears to have generated a "new language" of abbreviations, acronyms, word combinations, and punctuation. In this naturalistic study, adolescents collected their instant messaging conversations for a 1-week period and then completed a…
Descriptors: Spelling, Electronic Mail, Punctuation, Classification
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Razak, Norizan Abdul; Saeed, Murad Abdu – English Language Teaching, 2015
This qualitative study investigated peer writing revision among English as foreign language (EFL) Arab students in a Facebook group. Specifically, it aimed to identify the text revisions made by the learners and to determine their contributions to the learners' written texts and sense of online community outside the college classroom context.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rua, Paula Lopez – Language Awareness, 2010
This article delves into the connections between language as a rule-governed system of communication and music as a means to express subcultural ideologies and satisfy collective needs. By resorting to the morphological analysis of a corpus of names of alternative music artists, the article evinces that language is a manipulable code through which…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music, Graphemes, Morphology (Languages)
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Baron, Naomi S.; Ling, Rich – Visible Language, 2011
Communication is increasingly taking place through written messaging using online and mobile platforms such as email, instant messaging and text messaging. A number of scholars have considered whether these texts reflect spoken or written language, though less is known about the role of punctuation. In fact, it is commonly assumed that punctuation…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Punctuation, Focus Groups, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nayan, Surina; Jusoff, Kamaruzaman – International Education Studies, 2009
Students in higher learning institutions need to write lots of reports based on the projects done. Since they are at the tertiary level of education, they are required to use English in their reports. This is to ensure that they are able to function well in English later at the workplace. Writing requires students to apply rules regarding sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Channon, Rachel; Sayers, Edna Edith – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
The use of function words in 135 essays written by deaf college underclassmen in developmental and credit-bearing English composition classes is described and compared with Standard English (SE) versions of the same essay. If student and SE versions were the same, this was considered mastery; if the student omitted a word, this was considered…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Deafness, Punctuation, English
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Zuidema, Leah A. – English Journal, 1996
Discusses the vocabulary of English punctuation terms, largely unchanged since the Norman conquest in 1066. Discusses the meaning of the period, colon, comma, question mark, exclamation point, slash, parenthesis, brackets, asterisk, hyphen, and ampersand. (RS)
Descriptors: Definitions, Grammar, Language Usage, Punctuation
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Vassallo, Philip – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1994
Describes two ways to combat "bad tone" and "unclear thinking" in writing. Describes "breaking the ice" as being aware of a written message's appearance--the message's readability. Explains that "fog-lifting" is accomplished by writing clearly, and by paying particular attention to the verb "to…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Grammar, Language Usage, Punctuation
Wyse, Dominic – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
Whether you are returning to studying after a break, or need help adjusting your writing skills to meet the needs of your education course, this practical, down-to-earth guide will help you improve your literacy skills. Aimed specifically at students in education courses, this book uses examples of students' work to highlight common problems, and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Guides, Language Usage, Reading Materials
Kelley, Kathleen Coyne – 1993
Missing apostrophes, misplaced apostrophes, and unnecessary apostrophes are all common occurrences in many forms of written American English. The fact is there is no adequate explanation--in traditional grammar or in any other grammar--that accounts for all the functions and transformations that grammarians have crowded under the heading of the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Usage, Punctuation
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth – 1993
Presenting extensive entertaining explanations of the rules of punctuation, this revised and expanded book offers advice on punctuation and a "bizarre comedy of manners." Whimsical illustrations and the travails of numerous fictional characters accompany explanations of the rules of punctuation. Chapters in the book address the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Usage, Punctuation, Secondary Education
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