What Have We Learned about Increasing the Meaningfulness of Science Prose?.

Mayer, Richard E.

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Publication Date: 1983-Apr

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What Have We Learned about Increasing the Meaningfulness of Science Prose?

Mayer, Richard E.

Science Education, v67 n2 p223-37 Apr 1983

Discusses five instructional strategies for increasing the meaningfulness of technical or scientific information. These include organization of prose, use of concrete analogies as advance organizers, use of inserted questions in prose, elaboration activities such as note-taking and discovery learning. (JN)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Science, Discovery Learning, Higher Education, Memory, Prose, Science Education, Science Instruction, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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