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Sánchez, Emilio; García, J. Ricardo; Bustos, Andrea – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Many studies have demonstrated the facilitating role of rhetorical devices in text comprehension, but there are also studies where rhetorical devices have not shown such effect. The present study sets out to explore whether readers' knowledge of rhetorical devices (that is, rhetorical competence) moderates their effectiveness beyond general…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Grade 7