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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
Peer reviewedHoover, Michael L. – Discourse Processes, 1997
Indicates a facilitation in undergraduate students' reading time for congruent text marking for both cohesion and textual structure that manifested itself at different points in the sentence. Suggests that readers are highly sensitive to coherence marking devices, and strictly local coherence models cannot completely account for what readers are…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
