Download or read book Improving the Expository Writing Skills of Adolescents written by Robert J. Kanellas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although sentence-combining researchers acknowledge the importance of syntax-to-discourse transfer, their treatments have achieved it in varying degrees through unclear procedures. Improving the Expository Writing Skills of Adolescents suggests effective strategies for contextualizing learning in the English language arts, focusing on a novel method of syntax instruction called "discourse-function sentence combining." The language arts objectives are integrated with ninth grade biology materials.