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The Effects of Reading and Writing upon Thinking Critically.

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Tierney, Robert J.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1989

Examines whether writing in combination with reading prompts more critical thinking than either activity alone, or either activity combined with questions or with a knowledge activation activity. Finds students who both wrote and read made more revisions (prompted by more critical thinking) than students in other treatment groups. (RS)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Processes

Traversing the Topical Landscape: Reading and Writing as Ways of Knowing.

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McGinley, William; Tierney, Robert J. – Written Communication, 1989

Proposes a view of literacy learning in which various forms of reading and writing are conceptualized as unique ways of thinking about and exploring a topic of study (analogous to a conceptual "landscape") en route to acquiring knowledge (best "traversed" from a variety of perspectives). (MS)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Independent Study, Learning Processes, Literacy Education