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Gunderson, Lee; Murphy, Sandra – 1981
A study examined (1) developmental differences in the writing of urban students, (2) the syntactic complexity associated with differing modes of written discourse, and (3) the relationship among grade level, mode of discourse, and writing quality. Subjects were approximately 1,200 second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade students from large…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Black Youth, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
