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Peer reviewedMills, Carol Bergfeld; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1995
Finds that the reader's purpose for reading (read-to-do or read-to-recall) partially determines what type of mental representation is stressed during comprehension. Finds that the processing of procedural text is codetermined by the participants' purpose for reading and type of text (narrative versus list-like) as well as the text structure (as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
