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Generative Stylistics: Between Grammar and Rhetoric
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Beaugrande, Robert de – College Composition and Communication, 1977
Uses 24 examples to demonstrate that a comprehensive generative stylistics can provide an interlocking method for describing and teaching writing strategies. (DD)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Grammar, Rhetoric, Teaching Methods
Generative Rhetoric as a Way of Increasing Syntactic Fluency.
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Faigley, Lester L. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes a study which found that generative rhetoric instruction produced a quantitative and qualitative increase in college students' syntactic maturity. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Teaching the Nominative Absolute
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Solomon, Martha – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English Instruction, Higher Education, Nouns
Symposium on the Paragraph.
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Christensen, Francis; And Others – College Composition and Communication, 1966
Three authors comment upon each other's views as expressed in previous articles on the paragraph. Francis Christensen discusses the "sentence-based" theory and compares it to other descriptions of the paragraph. A.L. Becker compares Christensen's and Paul Rodgers' views and discusses their major differences in (1) identity and variation in…
Descriptors: Conferences, English, English Instruction, Grammar
Twelve Steps to Using Generative Sentences and Sentence Combining in the Composition Classroom.
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Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Guidelines for connecting the rhetorical principles taught by Francis Christensen with concepts from sentence-combining in a plan to help students learn to invent and develop sentences. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College English, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
A Transformational Approach to Teaching Composition
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Ross, Janet – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research, English Instruction