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Schultz, Charles W. – 1989
The preferences of a group of 35 randomly selected undergraduate and graduate students for different text density on computer screens were examined in this study. The displays, which ranged from 53% to 22% density, were generated using the Apple IIe microcomputer. Students were shown a pair of screens of different densities and asked which screen…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Microcomputers
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
Johnsey, Ava L.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the position of illustrations and how they affect the sequential organization of text. The primary purpose was to describe learners' reading sequence and preference for page designs with variations of illustration placement. The 70 subjects were undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in education courses at Memphis…
Descriptors: Desktop Publishing, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Illustrations
Peer reviewedAkamatsu, Nobuhiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Uses case alteration (cAse ALteRaTiOn) to investigate effects of first-language (L1) orthographic characteristics on word recognition in English as a second language (ESL). Finds magnitude of case alteration effect for naming tasks was significantly larger for ESL participants whose L1 was not alphabetic. Suggests that L1 orthographic features…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Higher Education, Language Research
Peer reviewedShaw, Jonathan – System, 1995
This paper presents preliminary results from classroom-initiated research using text-graphing to develop metacognitive awareness among English-as-a-Second-Language engineering students writing the literature review section of their master's theses. Results found that text graphing can raise students' awareness of the rhetorical structure of…
Descriptors: Engineering, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Download full textBellows, B. P. – 1994
A study investigated how a knowledge or lack of knowledge of basic text structures, such as comparison and contrast and cause and effect, contributes to the reading process in remedial adolescent readers. By observing a group of graduate students and through the close study of a few adolescent case studies, a researcher attempted to determine if…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Coherence, Graduate Students
