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Peer reviewedFrancis, Hazel; Hallam, Susan – Higher Education, 2000
Twenty-two graduate students in education at a British university read, answered written questions, and then discussed four text extracts from different genres (literary, theoretical, research, and statistical). Results of this study and a follow-up survey of 39 similar students suggested that text genre is a major factor in perceived difficulty…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Higher Education
