Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ209313
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Oct
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The Effect of Rewriting Prose Material on Reading Comprehension.
Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.
Reading World, v19 n1 p1-11 Oct 1979
Reports a study showing that reading comprehension of college students who were poor readers increased when passages were rewritten editing out abstract nouns and verb-nominalizations and replacing them with either concrete nouns or full verbs, but that comprehension of average and good readers did not change with the revisions. (TJ)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulty, Reading Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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