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Direct linkDixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This research examined readers' knowledge of popular genres. Participants wrote short essays on fantasy, science fiction, or romance. The similarities among the essays were measured using latent semantic analysis (LSA) and were then analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. The clusters and scales were interpreted by searching…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Knowledge Level, Reading, Essays
