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Fox, Emily – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article considers the role of reader characteristics in processing and learning from informational text, as revealed in think-aloud research. A theoretical framework for relevant aspects of readers' processing and products was developed. These relevant aspects included three attentional foci for processing (comprehension, monitoring, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Goal Orientation
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Wenger, Michael J.; Spyridakis, Jan H. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1993
Studies empirically the effects on reader performance of reduced text structure in technical writing texts. Reveals that removal of cues to local coherence produced reliable decrements in reader performance. Discusses results with regard to questions of information design. (HB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research