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DeLuca, V. William – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1991
Eighteen undergraduates were given a standard manufacturing textbook and 18 a text in which major concepts were expressed as mathematical equations. The mathematical text enhanced ability to recall concepts and apply them in context. However, transfer of concepts to different concepts was not affected by type of text. (SK)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Equations (Mathematics), Higher Education, Manufacturing

Cox, Beverly E.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1991
Investigates the ability of children at two grades and reading ability levels to write functionally appropriate expository texts. Finds that (1) virtually all the children understand the function and audience for exposition; and (2) reading level is significantly more related than grade level to sophisticated use of cohesion, organization, and a…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, Expository Writing

James, Rebecca – Children's Literature in Education, 1999
Considers two CD-Rom narratives as examples of high quality, interactive multimedia texts currently available. Looks at how verbal and visual texts draw the reader into an interactive response and the extent to which multimedia elements shape the reader's experience of the text. Bases findings loosely on fieldwork involving responses of four…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text

Ward-Lonergan, Jeannene M.; Liles, Betty Z.; Anderson, Angela M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
Verbal-retelling abilities for social-studies lectures were examined in 20 adolescent boys with language-learning disabilities and 29 with normal language abilities. Lectures had either a comparison expository discourse structure or a causation discourse structure. Results indicated that the comparison discourse structure facilitated more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Impairments

Higgins, J. J.; Lawrie, A. M.; White, A. Goodith – System, 1999
Describes three pilot projects carried out with a special version of a computer-assisted language-learning activity, known as SEQUITUR, that seeks to develop awareness of cohesive devices and coherence features by displaying the start of a text and offering possible continuations. Usage logs of responses given by native and nonnative speakers of…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Patterns

Burke, Jim – Voices from the Middle, 2001
Discusses "textual intelligence": knowledge of how texts of all kinds work. Describes how the author uses grammar in his classroom to help students understand how to read and write better and how to think with greater clarity. Describes activities used before and after students read or write. Argues that grammar is a process that helps students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Arts

Henry, Avril – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2002
Describes an undergraduate student module that was developed at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) in which students made their own computer graphics to discover and to describe literary structures in texts of their choice. Discusses learning outcomes and refers to the Web site that shows students' course work. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Katayama, Andrew D.; Crooks, Steven M. – Learning Assistance Review, 2001
Describes two experiments conducted to investigate the effects of notetaking format on achievement. Students constructed and studied different types of notes: partial (framework and partial notes), skeletal (framework with no notes), and control (no framework and no notes). Found that, based on an application test, students who completed and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Text
Garner, Joanna K.; Bochna, Cynthia R. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2004
Instruction in narrative text structure on first graders' listening and reading comprehension was examined with a view to documenting strategy instruction and transfer of learning in beginning readers. Of interest was whether or not first-grade students (n=35) would, following instruction within the context of listening to stories, gain in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Independent Reading, Grade 1, Text Structure
Klein, Perry D. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 2004
This study examined the writing strategies and text characteristics associated with discovering a scientific principle by writing about an experiment. Sixty-four university students (non-science majors) carried out a physics experiment concerning either buoyancy, or the forces acting on a balance scale, then wrote an informal journal-style note…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Scientific Principles, Science Experiments, Physics
Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Across the Disciplines, 2006
The author presents a study that employs a modified version of Swales' (1990) move analysis to investigates the generic structure of introductions in a total of 120 writing samples of Ghanaian undergraduates in English and Sociology. The study reveals differences between the two groups in their use of move-structures.
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Foreign Countries
Hynd, Cynthia R.; And Others – 1994
A study examined the role of science texts in classrooms and sought to determine how cognition, attitude/motivation, and socioeconomics affect conceptual change learning from texts in those classrooms. Subjects were students in three high-school science classes, one at each level of instruction: general, regular, and advanced. The classrooms were…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Environment, High Schools, Reading Research
Stewig, John Warren – 1995
This report establishes a foundation of information about how children in classroom settings develop visual literacy. Data was gathered during five 45-minute sessions with a second and a fourth grade classroom during which children looked at pictures in four versions of the Noah's Ark tale. The intent was to elicit whatever children chose to say…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Descriptive Writing
Reinwein, Joachim – 1993
This paper presents a new computer program called Zigzag, suited for investigating readers' mental activity during text processing. The program permits data collection of two different kinds, namely reading time and reading errors for each of the words read. The second dependent measure, reading errors, provides a better control of the readers'…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education
Meyer, Linda A. – 1991
In the course of a longitudinal study that addressed the questions of how children learn to comprehend what they read and how they learn science concepts, many other research questions emerged. The original longitudinal study investigated how children learn to comprehend what they read. Three school districts with fairly stable student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science, Instructional Effectiveness