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Peer reviewedJohns, Ann M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Reviews current literature on coherence in written text, defines coherence in broad terms, and then presents a three-lesson revision unit based on modern coherence principles. In this unit, students "deconstruct" assignment prompts, prepare first drafts, examine another student's first draft, and then revise their essays and examine the revisions.…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cohesion (Written Composition), English for Academic Purposes, Essays
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1977
This newsletter contains five articles. The first, "Discourse Structure in Reading," by Ron Shook, suggests that reading materials for the beginning ESL (English as a second language) reader often have three defects: (1) profusion of detail as question fodder; (2) an oversimplified syntax; and (3) an artificial construction that violates…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
