Sentence Structure in Academic Prose and Its Implications for College Writing Teachers

Sentence Structure in Academic Prose and Its Implications for College Writing Teachers
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Sentence Structure In Academic Prose And Its Implications For College Writing Teachers, is a research paper write and prepared Glenn, Marlis ( Iowa state university) and James (university of Cincinnati). There has been a conflict on the aspect of simplicity and complexity of the sentence structures for college writing. Traditionally the difference between complex and simple lies in the rhetoric distinction of the plain and eloquent structures. Glenn et al considered the two aspect of the sentence among the academic areas of study such as the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. The complexity norm sentence structures is commonly used by the teachers as they would want to make sure that the students in the high school level and the college levels to be articulate in combining sentences or while generating rhetoric. Using the Terminable unit (T-Unit) which is basically an independent clause plus the accompanying modifiers, the teachers can measure the aspect of complexity. Previous research by Christensen (1978), indicate that the T-unit is a good gauge that helps draw the line between the good and the adult writing. In his paper, he indicated two ways of assessing the complexity of the documents. One of the ways was clause length while the other was the free modifiers number of words. The simplicity norm mainly dwells on the clarity of the content and the consciences of the material. The standard measure in the simplicity norm is the sentence rather than the T-unit.
A closer look at the two norms reveals that they tend to use different set of terminologies to describe the measures that they use. However, there is not a single approach that can be said to be a coherent approach that can relate to all the academic areas across the board. As such, the purpose of the paper is to try and establish if it is possible to have such an approach that cuts across the academic fields writing. To do this the team tried to establish at first, if the subject matter of the different academic areas have any form of influence in the sentence structures. This due to the fact that, there are chances that if the material is...