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ERIC Number: EJ330529
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Overcoming Underwriting and Other Textbook Sins.
Roller, Cathy M.
Social Education, v50 n1 p56-57 Jan 1986
Ninth-grade social studies students were asked to paraphrase a text excerpt. Results showed that students encounter the most serious reading difficulties when texts fail to take into account students' lack of background information and thus seriously underwrite the ideas. What authors and editors should do to improve textbooks is discussed.
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Textbook Preparation, Textbook Research, Textbooks
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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