Program

Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 3/31/1979

Funding Totals

$41,501.86 (approved)
$41,501.86 (awarded)


Summer Seminar: "Style and the Structure of Discourse"

FAIN: FS-*0093-78

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Joseph M. Williams (Project Director: August 1977 to October 1990)

Seminar will compare the language teaching techniques of whole vs. part; discourse vs sentences. Will include survey of theoretical literature, analysis of discourses and their sentences, text cohesion and the teaching of style. Each participant will write a paper and may propose a program of investigation addressing questions in the study of style.