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Direct linkPerin, Dolores; Lauterbach, Mark; Raufman, Julia; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Summarization and persuasive writing are important in postsecondary education and often require the use of source text. However, students entering college with low literacy skills often find this type of writing difficult. The present study compared predictors of performance on text-based summarization and persuasive writing in a sample of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, Persuasive Discourse
