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Summary of Statistics
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Except for "Words/MC," figures per main clause (MC) are actually per 100 MC.*
Group N= Total W W
/MC		 MC Long MC Short MC Var TSC /MC % W inPP Inf /MC Gn /MC Gve /MC App
/MC
Writing by Students in K-12
G3 Loban   7.6                  
G3 O'Donnell   7.7       18          
G3 (SS) 5 91 6.0 10.6 3.2 41 13 14 5 - - -
G4 Loban   8.0       19          
G4 Hunt   8.5       29          
G4(1986) 10 342 7.7 19 3.0 47 22 23 7 1 1 4
G5 Loban   8.8       21          
G5 O'Donnell   9.3       27          
G5 (SS) 4 169 9.0 17.3 4.0 47 30 25 10 4 2 1
G6 Loban   9.0       29          
G6 (SS) 29 148 9.8 19 5.0 50 58 20 15 5 1 2
G7 Loban   8.9       28          
G7 O'Donnell   10.0       30          
G7(1986) 31 263 9.4 21 4 48 42 24 14 7 1 4
G8 Loban   10.4       50          
G8 Hunt   11.3       42          
G8 (SS) 4 204 11.3 25.8 5.8 33 54 16 50 6 - 3
G9 Loban   10.1       47          
G9(1986)                        
G10 Loban   11.8       52          
G11 Loban   10.7       45          
G12 Loban   13.3       60          
G12 Hunt   14.4       68          
Children's Literature
Burgess OMWW 19 77.1 19.6       71         1
College Students
Group N= Total W W
/MC		 MC Long MC Short MC Var TSC /MC % W inPP Inf /MC Gn /MC Gve /MC App /MC
1995-PR  44 192  15.6 29 6 49 102 27 35 13 4 3
1995-P1     15.7                  
1995-P4     15.6                  
CF(Alum) 93   10.7       45 24 12 10 19 4
Adults
Hunt   20.3       74          
Essayists 1 224 16.0 28 4 60 86 44 24 21 21 7
Novelists 6 322 21.2 56 7 65 72 45 17 8 18 16
Fables 20 141 14.3 28 5 54 64 29 32 10 18 1
Jokes 39 80 13.5 21 7 43 73 28 21 8 14 8

* This not only eliminates decimal points and place-holding zeroes, but it also allows us to say, for example, that if the figure of TSC/MC is six, then, assuming that the clauses are distributed evenly, six per cent of the main clause have subordinate clauses. Zeroes have been eliminated from the table because they simply add clutter.
** Loban's data taken from Language Development: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve. Urbana, IL.: NCTE. 1976. 32. Hunt's and O'Donnell's data taken from the summary in Frank O'Hare, Sentence Combining. Urbana, IL.: NCTE. 1971. 22.