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ERIC Number: EJ440216
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0256-2928
Narrative and Descriptive Text Revising Strategies and Procedures.
Piolat, Annie; Roussey, Jean-Yves
European Journal of Psychology of Education, v6 n2 p155-63 Jun 1991
Presents study results on text revision strategies using a simplified word processor that records movements of linguistic units. Reports that adult subjects used the simultaneous strategy for correcting narrative and local-then-global strategy for correcting description whereas children used the local-then-global strategy for the narrative, but no identifiable description revision strategy. (DK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Language Styles, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education, Text Structure, Thinking Skills, Word Processing, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Writing Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Translations
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: France; Revision Processes; SCRIPREV; Writing Patterns