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ERIC Number: EJ410005
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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AIM: A Metacognitive Strategy for Constructing the Main Idea of Text.
Jacobowitz, Tina
Journal of Reading, v33 n8 p620-24 May 1990
Compares skilled and unskilled adult readers' approaches to finding the main idea in text. Describes and tests Author's Intended Message (AIM), a holistic main idea strategy suitable for independent use by college study skills students. Investigates the effectiveness of this strategy. (RS)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Instructional Effectiveness, Metacognition, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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