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Butler, Paul – English Journal, 2011
About 10 years ago, Robert J. Connors's article "The Erasure of the Sentence" questioned the disappearance of writing style and examined the validity of some of the reasons given for its disappearance. Since that 2000 article, the study of style has undergone a kind of renaissance, with numerous books and articles on its uses in composition theory…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Creativity, Sentences, Teacher Role
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Thompson, Charles Lamar; Weiner, Charles – English Journal, 1972
Author details why the psychological studies of Jean Piaget have specific relevance to the teaching of poetry, especially his thought matrix which consists of four transformational processes: identity, inversion, reciprocity and correlation. (Author)
Descriptors: Imagery, Irony, Literary Criticism, Poetry
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McGuire, Eileen J. – English Journal, 1967
When ninth-grade students are searching for help in expressing their newly discovered ideas, the principles of transformational grammar can be brought to their aid in the following ways: (1) Assign a provocative topic to the students which they are to discuss as fully as possible in one sentence. (2) Present only the kernel sentences of a…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 9, Grammar, Junior High School Students