Toward a Grammar of Passages

"The mature writer is recognized ... by his ability to create a flow of sentences, a pattern of thought that is produced, one suspects, according to the principles of yet another kind of grammar-a grammar, let us say, of passages."--Mina Shaughnessy Richard M. Coe has developed such a &quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coe, Richard M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher)
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
English language > Grammar > Study and teaching (Higher)
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The mature writer is recognized ... by his ability to create a flow of sentences, a pattern of thought that is produced, one suspects, according to the principles of yet another kind of grammar-a grammar, let us say, of passages."--Mina Shaughnessy Richard M. Coe has developed such a "grammar," one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen's generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively analyze.
Physical Description:1 online resource (144 pages).
ISBN:9780809390779

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