Effects of Advance Organizers and Reader's Purpose on the Level of Ideas Acquired from Expository Text--Part II.

Williams, Thomas R.; Butterfield, Earl C.

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ERIC Number: EJ451295

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Effects of Advance Organizers and Reader's Purpose on the Level of Ideas Acquired from Expository Text--Part II.

Williams, Thomas R.; Butterfield, Earl C.

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v22 n3 p281-99 1992

Investigates whether advance organizers facilitate the acquisition of subordinate information from text. Examines the influences of reader's background knowledge, advance organizers, relative importance of idea units, and idea units' position within a text structure on the recall of textual information. (SR)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Technical Writing, Text Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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