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Peer reviewedBlair, Teresa K.; Crump, W. Donald – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1984
The effect of two discourse modes--description and argumentation--on the syntactic complexity of written expression of 54 learning disabled boys in grades 6, 8, and 10 was examined. Among many results was that the simple sentence was used most in the descriptive mode. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Males, Sentences
