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50 Years of ERIC
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Class and Culture in the Development of the High School English Curriculum, 1880-1900
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Piche, Gene L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Educational History, English Curriculum
Audience and Mode of Discourse Effects on Syntactic Complexity in Writing at Two Grade Levels.
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Crowhurst, Marion; Piche, Gene L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Reports on a study that examined the effect of intended audience and mode of discourse on the syntactic complexity of compositions written by sixth- and tenth-graders, and that attempted to determine whether there were increases in syntactic complexity from grade 6 to grade 10 for each audience and in each mode. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Difficulty Level, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Teachers' Subjective Evaluations of Standard and Black Nonstandard English Compositions: A Study of Written Language and Attitudes
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Piche, Gene L.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
No relation between composition "dialect" and judged quality of the writing was found. (DD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Research, Language Research, Secondary Education
The Influence of Headed Nominal Complexity and Lexical Choice on Teachers' Evaluation of Writing.
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Neilsen, Lorraine; Piche, Gene L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
This study examined whether the use of complex headed nominal structures resulted in a higher qualitative rating of a passage than the use of simple headed nominal structures and whether the use of more mature vocabulary resulted in a higher qualitative rating of a passage than the use of simple vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Lexicology, Nouns, Rating Scales
The Effects of Selected Text-Forming Structures on College Freshmen's Comprehension of Expository Prose.
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Roen, Duane H.; Piche, Gene L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Examines the individual and combined effects of between-sentence cohesive conjunctions, reference (lexical cohesion), and response rhetorical predicates on college freshmen's comprehension of selected passages of scientific, technical prose. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Freshmen, Conjunctions
Development in Syntactic and Strategic Aspects of Audience Adaptation Skills in Written Persuasive Communication.
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Piche, Gene L.; Rubin, Donald L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Describes a study that examined how audience differences, realized as varying degrees of intimacy or familiarity with a writer, affect syntactic and strategic aspects of style and that sought to determine the extent to which audience adaptation is developmental among fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students as well as expert adults. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiences, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition