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ERIC Number: EJ285717
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Aug
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The Development of Plans for Summarizing Texts.
Brown, Ann L.; And Others
Child Development, v54 n4 p968-79 Aug 1983
Students from the fifth, seventh, and eleventh grades, as well as college students, wrote constrained and unconstrained summaries of stories they had previously learned to criterion. While developmental trends were apparent, it was also found that fifth and seventh graders who made rough drafts performed at a level set by college students. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Students, Higher Education, Language Skills, Planning, Writing Processes, Writing Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Summarization