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ERIC Number: EJ319726
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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The Effects of Reader- and Text-Based Factors on Writers' and Readers' Perceptions of the Importance of Information in Expository Prose.
Roller, Cathy M.
Reading Research Quarterly, v20 n4 p437-57 Sum 1985
Describes four experiments that examined the influence of an information units' category membership, normative importance, and goal-relatedness on its perceived importance. Results suggest that category membership and goal-relatedness did affect perceptions of importance.(HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Influences, Information Processing, Knowledge Level, Perception, Prior Learning, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Schemata (Cognition), Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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