Some Characteristics of Memorable Expository Writing: Effects of Revisions by Writers with Different Backgrounds.

Graves, Michael F.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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Some Characteristics of Memorable Expository Writing: Effects of Revisions by Writers with Different Backgrounds.

Graves, Michael F.; And Others

Research in the Teaching of English, v22 n3 p242-65 Oct 1988

Reports two studies of comprehensible and memorable expository writing. Finds that Time-Life editors' revisions of a high school history text improved eleventh grade students' recall, while revisions made by text linguists and composition instructors did not. But given latitude to change content, all editors' revisions improved recall. (RAE)

Descriptors: Editors, Expository Writing, Grade 11, Higher Education, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education, Textbooks, Writing Research

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