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Direct linkBerman, Ruth A.; Katzenberger, Irit – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This article considers how children and young people conceptualize and construct different types of texts. The initial parts of narrative and expository texts written by grade-schoolers, adolescents, and adults were analyzed, on the assumption that the opening to a piece of discourse serves as a window on the text as a whole. Analysis was…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Age Differences, Writing (Composition)
Berman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
In this study we argue that narrative storytelling and expository discussion, as 2 distinct discourse genres, differ both in linguistic expression and in their underlying principles of organization--schema-based in narratives and category-based in exposition. Innovative analyses applied to 160 personal-experience narratives and expository essays…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, Children
