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Jacobi, Ernst – 1976
Intended for the adult who needs writing skills for career purposes, this three-part book presents principles rather than mechanical rules for achieving effective communication through writing. The first section of the book offers specific guidelines on communicative attitude, content, perspective, theme, organization, and revision. The middle…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Writing
Miller, Gordon W. – 1981
An annotated selected bibliography of 33 style manuals, three bibliographies of style manuals, and three periodicals routinely furnishing style information provides access to the Madison Memorial Library collection of guides containing consistent rule patterns for punctuation and format for the preparation of research reports, journal articles,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Citations (References)
Boloz, Sigmund A., Comp. – 1978
This guide provides an evaluation system by which a teacher or parent can follow a child's progress in sentence structure, usage, punctuation, capitalization, penmanship, and composition from kindergarten through grade eight. Each page lists an objective that is coded so that it is possible to correlate related materials, such as test items,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Melvin, Mary P. – 1980
The effects of sentence combining instruction on student writing skills (punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and syntactic maturity) and reading achievement were studied in eight-, nine-, ten-, and eleven-year-old children. The experimental group, which received instruction in sentence combining, consisted of 20 students from each age group.…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Held, Jeanette R. – 1968
In answer to the need for more effective punctuation instruction, a project, based on the theory that an essential relationship exists between intonation and punctuation, was designed for and executed with two 9th-grade student groups--one experimental, the other control. The experimental group received punctuation instruction through the use of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Intonation, Language Patterns
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Job Corps. – 1969
This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Spelling Endings Added to e; Capitalization; Question Marks and Exclamation Points; Quotation Marks; Spelling Double Letter Demons; Colons and Dashes; Punctuating Series with Commas and Semicolons; More Confusing Word Pairs; Separating Sentence Parts with…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Achievement Tests, Autoinstructional Aids, Capitalization (Alphabetic)
Lewis, J. Richard – 1975
The effectiveness of certain nonsimulation academic games in a gaming system called Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) was investigated as a method of teaching the skills of capitalization and punctuation. A sample of 138 eighth-grade students participated in an 18-day experiment comparing three teaching methods: gaming, in which students were taught…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Educational Games, Educational Research, English Instruction
Oates, Rita Haugh – Quill and Scroll, 1987
Reviews several software packages that analyze text readability, check for spelling and style problems, offer desktop publishing capabilities, teach interviewing skills, and teach grammar using a computer game. (SRT)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
Cridlig, Jean-Marie – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
A typology of classroom exercises according to the functions they serve in teaching textual and discourse competence and focusing more on the text than on the sentence is proposed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cohesion (Written Composition), French
Department for Education and Skills, London (England). – 2001
Adapted for whole class use, this unit of study is aimed at helping children in England who have reached Level 3 in English at Key Stage 2 and who need further help with the skills of writing to enable them to achieve Level 4. It focuses on extending pupils' range and control of sentences in writing. The sessions include the proper use of…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Department for Education and Skills, London (England). – 2001
Developed for use in small groups, this unit of study is aimed at helping children in England who have reached Level 3 in English at Key Stage 2 and who need further help with the skills of writing to enable them to achieve Level 4. It focuses on extending pupils' range and control of sentences in writing. The sessions include the proper use of…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Beacco, Jean-Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1983
Potential uses of newspaper editorials for French instruction are presented, including interpretation of such elements as type style, layout, writing style, grammar, vocabulary and word usage, and punctuation as well as content and context. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Editing, Editorials, French
Quible, Zane K. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2004
This article used a writing sample that contained 27 sentence-level errors of the type found by corporate America to be annoying and bothersome. Five categories of errors were included in the sample: grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing style, and business communication concepts. Students in a written business communication course were asked…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns, Sentences
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar. – 1994
This partial proceedings contains papers presented at the fifth annual conference of the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on the topic of learning, teaching, and researching grammar. Papers in the proceedings are: "Using Grammatical Information to Make Rhetorical Points (Wanda Van Goor); "Grammar with a Purpose: Using Grammar…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Grammar
Fowler, Elaine D. – 1978
An interest in conditions of practice and feedback led to a study which examined the effect on writing by elementary school students of (1) two types of practice, both similar to "free focused writing"; (2) practice at a frequency greater than once a week; and (3) a procedure by which students measured their own performance and provided themselves…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Feedback, Free Writing