Deanna Kuhn, Wadiya Udell, The Development of Argument Skills, Child Development, Vol. 74, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 2003), pp. 1245-1260 ... Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and ...

Particularly with lower grades emphasizing how to write a well-crafted paragraph, students don’t necessarily have sufficient practice in building multi-paragraph pieces. One teacher explained, ...