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Gregg, Noel; Hoy, Cheri – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study found that college student writers with learning disabilities (N=35) produced better coherent written text than did underprepared non-disabled students. LD writers appeared to understand text structure like normally achieving writers but, like the underprepared writers, they experienced difficulty in the production process. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Expressive Language, Higher Education