A Primer for Writing Teachers: Theories, Theorists, Issues, ProblemsEssential reading for teachers interested in the methods and problems of composition but unfamiliar with its current theoretical backgrounds. |
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... Christensen posits that the essence of sentence formation is “ a process of addition " ( 2 ) which adds to a “ main ... Christensen means " main clause " in the sense of noun phrase + verb phrase , the basic propositional form of a ...
... Christensen posits that the essence of sentence formation is “ a process of addition " ( 2 ) which adds to a “ main ... Christensen means " main clause " in the sense of noun phrase + verb phrase , the basic propositional form of a ...
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... Christensen's Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph Francis Christensen expresses a distaste for textbook models of the paragraph that parallels his distaste for text models of the sentence . Citing the bewildering variety of paragraph ...
... Christensen's Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph Francis Christensen expresses a distaste for textbook models of the paragraph that parallels his distaste for text models of the sentence . Citing the bewildering variety of paragraph ...
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... Christensen model , the first paragraph under the heading " Francis Christensen's Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph " above : ( T ) Francis Christensen expresses a distaste for textbook models of the paragraph that parallels his ...
... Christensen model , the first paragraph under the heading " Francis Christensen's Generative Rhetoric of the Paragraph " above : ( T ) Francis Christensen expresses a distaste for textbook models of the paragraph that parallels his ...
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Chapter Three | 54 |
Chapter Five | 166 |
Teaching the Course | 193 |
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