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Direct linkAppel, Markus; Maleckar, Barbara – Human Communication Research, 2012
The present research examined the role of personality factors and paratextual information about the reliability of a story on its persuasiveness. Study 1 (N = 135) was focused on recipients' explicit expectations about the trustworthiness/usefulness and the immersiveness/entertainment value of stories introduced as nonfiction, fiction, or fake.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Story Telling, Nonfiction
Anderson, Babs – Education 3-13, 2005
Reporting on a piece of small-scale research, this article considers the notion of a community of enquiry within the context of a Year 2 class. It suggests that the community of enquiry approach can provide a framework to support young children, comprehension in literacy and also has clear benefits in regard to young children's citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Young Children, Fiction, Discourse Communities
Jarvis, Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter examines how the study of popular romantic fiction was used to transform students' understandings of the ways in which gendered identities are constructed and their perception of the way textual meanings are determined.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fiction, Reader Text Relationship, Gender Issues
