Improving the Expository Writing Skills of Adolescents

by James Carifio, Robert J. Kanellas, Lorraine Dagostino

Although sentence-combining researchers acknowledge the importance of syntax-to-discourse transfer, their treatments have achieved it in varying degrees through unclear procedures. Improving the Expository Writing Skills of Adolescents suggests effective strategies for contextualizing learning in the English language arts, focusing on a novel method of syntax instruction called "discourse-function sentence combining." The language arts objectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761810544
• ISBN13: 9780761810544
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 160 Pages