Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 8, No. 3, Winter 1974

Table of Contents

• Editor's Foreword

• The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose

  Richard Braddock

• A Case Study of a Twelfth-grade Writer

  Terry Mischel

• An Investigation of the Relationships between Children's Performance in Written Language and their Reading Ability

  Peter Evanechko, Lloyd Ollila, and Robert Armstrong

• An Exploration of Deep Structure Recovery and Reading Comprehension Skills

  Roy C. O'Donnell and F. J. King

• Black English Syntax and Reading Interference

  Herbert D. Simons and Kenneth R. Johnson

• A Comparison of Vocabulary Diversity and Syntactic Structures of Four-Year Old Children at Two Socio-Economic Levels

  Nancy L. F. Quisenberry

• The English Modal Auxiliaries: Frequency and Usage in Boardroom Discussion

  Rosaline K. Chiu

• Notes and Comments

• Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English: January 1, 1974 to June 30, 1974

  Daniel J. Dietrich

• Index to Volume 8

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