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Direct linkTarchi, Christian; Villalón, Ruth – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2022
The present study analyzed the efficacy of a brief intervention aimed at scaffolding readers' "recursivity" (i.e., going back to the texts) while reading multiple texts and writing an argumentative essay. The participants were 151 university students, randomly assigned to two conditions: experimental (Recursivity-induced, RI) and active…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Reading Strategies, Essays
Christian Tarchi; Ruth Villalón; Nina Vandermeulen; Lidia Casado-Ledesma; Anna Paola Fallaci – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
In university settings, writing argumentative essays from reading conflicting source texts is a common task for students. In performing this synthesis task, they must deal with conflicting claims about a controversial issue as they develop their own positions. Argumentative synthesis is characterized by writers' back-and-forth moves between…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
