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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
