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ERIC Number: EJ255871
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Dec
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Text Variations at the Level of the Individual Sentence and the Comprehension of Simple Expository Paragraphs.
Williams, Joanna P.; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v73 n6 p851-65 Dec 1981
In two experiments, fourth, fifth, and sixth-graders and an adult set chose titles and wrote summary sentences for expository paragraphs. All groups were better at detecting sentences that conformed neither to the paragraphs general nor specific topic than sentences conforming only to the general. (CE)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Sentences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Discourse Organization; Main Idea; Paragraph Meaning