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Mildly handicapped students experience serious difficulties in expository writing. Although researchers have documented the difficulties these students have with the mechanics of writing (Myklebust, 1973; Poplin, Gray, Larsen, Banikoski, & Mehring, 1980), there are more formidable and less visible difficulties in their abilities to construct well-formed prose and in the thinking processes that underlie text composition.
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Englert, C.S. (1990). Unraveling the Mysteries of Writing Through Strategy Instruction. In: Scruggs, T.E., Wong, B.Y.L. (eds) Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3414-2_8
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