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An Introduction to the Study of Written Texts: The “Discourse Compact”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Robert B. Kaplan
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About seventeen years ago when my eldest daughter was a student in the third grade of elementary school, she came home one day with a grade of “D” on an English assignment. Because I have been, in part at least, a language teacher most of my adult life, and because my daughter was a particularly verbal child, I was a bit distressed at the grade. I looked over her paper and was unable, in my ignorance, to detect what in it had induced her teacher to give her a grad of “D”.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 3 , March 1982 , pp. 137 - 151
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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