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ERIC Number: EJ550050
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Topic Overviews and the Processing of Topic Structure.
Murray, John D.; McGlone, Chadd
Journal of Educational Psychology, v89 n2 p251-61 Jun 1997
Three experiments, involving 197 undergraduates, studied the information that is included in a topic overview accessed during reading. The presence of topic, but not order, information resulted in faster topic sentence reading times. Information about global passage structure was also encoded from the overview. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Reading, Study Guides, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Passage Organization; Text Organization; Topic Sentences; Topic Units
Note: Portions of this paper reported at the Annual Meetings of the Psychonomics Society (St. Louis, MO, November 1994) and the American Psychological Society (103rd, New York, NY, July 1995).