Sentence-Level Construction Methods: Skills Taught Are Skills Used

The findings of this study predict that students who utilize five specific sentence constructions on timed single-draft writing compositions will have higher holistic scores than students who do not utilize the specific constructions. Students in the treatment group who were taught to use the five...

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Main Author:	Shelton, Susan Allsop
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Published:	BYU ScholarsArchive 2017
Subjects:	style sentence-level instruction explicit instruction English Language and Literature
Online Access:	https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6505 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7505&context=etd

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spelling	ndltd-BGMYU2-oai-scholarsarchive.byu.edu-etd-75052019-05-16T03:23:15Z Sentence-Level Construction Methods: Skills Taught Are Skills Used Shelton, Susan Allsop The findings of this study predict that students who utilize five specific sentence constructions on timed single-draft writing compositions will have higher holistic scores than students who do not utilize the specific constructions. Students in the treatment group who were taught to use the five constructions through thorough and consistent instruction in a semester length first year writing course showed statistically significant gains, 4.698 points on a 0-18 scale, based on comparison of pre-test and post-test writing samples. The findings suggest that specific style instruction at the sentence level should be part of the first year writing course curriculum, and possibly in the writing curriculum of secondary education as well. 2017-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6505 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7505&context=etd http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ All Theses and Dissertations BYU ScholarsArchive style sentence-level instruction explicit instruction English Language and Literature
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description	The findings of this study predict that students who utilize five specific sentence constructions on timed single-draft writing compositions will have higher holistic scores than students who do not utilize the specific constructions. Students in the treatment group who were taught to use the five constructions through thorough and consistent instruction in a semester length first year writing course showed statistically significant gains, 4.698 points on a 0-18 scale, based on comparison of pre-test and post-test writing samples. The findings suggest that specific style instruction at the sentence level should be part of the first year writing course curriculum, and possibly in the writing curriculum of secondary education as well.
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Sentence-Level Construction Methods: Skills Taught Are Skills Used

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