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Download full textUnrau, Norman J. – 1991
A study investigated the impact of a procedure called Thesis Analysis and Synthesis Key (TASK), which was embedded in a curriculum designed to help high school students read and write arguments. Subjects, 120 11th-graders in San Francisco were instructed in argumentation under 3 conditions. Their gains in the ability to read arguments were…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 11, High Schools
