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Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – 1979
Research shows that effectively used writing plans (models of text organization) promote understanding of messages and that students can learn to use these plans. Writing plans include overall plans (antecedent/consequent, comparison, description, and response), emphasis plans that highlight certain subtopics, and cohesion plans that refer to the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Models
Download full textMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; Rice, G. Elizabeth – 1983
Discourse can be organized in many different ways, two of these being comparison and a collection of descriptions. These two discourse types correspond to schemata that vary in their organizational components, and these differences can be expected to produce differences in the processing of text. For example, research has shown that for young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Writing
