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ERIC Number: EJ316168
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Topic Structure Representation and Text Recall.
Lorch, Robert F., Jr.; Lorch, Elizabeth Pugzles
Journal of Educational Psychology, v77 n2 p137-48 Apr 1985
College subjects were required to read and recall an expository text. They recalled information about fewer topics if they were randomly ordered and the introductory paragraph was uninformative. Subjects recalled information about more topics if the text contained topic sentences. Readers used representation of a text's topic structure to guide recall. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Text Learning; Text Structures; Topic Sentences
Note: This research was supported by a University of Kentucky Research Foundation Grant and by two University of Kentucky Research Foundation Faculty Summer Fellowships.