Writing development in four genres from
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Scott F. Beers; William E. Nagy
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Article
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2010
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Two measures of syntactic complexity, clauses per T-unit and words per clause, were used to examine differences among four genres of text-narrative, descriptive, compare/contrast, and persuasive-written by the same two cohorts (83 students in grades three and five and 96 students in grades five and