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Direct linkClinton, Virginia; Taylor, Terrill; Bajpayee, Surjya; Davison, Mark L.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Inferential comprehension is necessary to connect ideas in a text together in a meaningful manner. There have been multiple studies on inferential comprehension involving texts of different genres (narrative and expository), but not a coherent overview of the findings of inferential comprehension by genre. The purpose of this study is to provide a…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Meta Analysis
Download full textClinton, Virginia; Taylor, Terrill; Bajpayee, Surjya; Davison, Mark L.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Grantee Submission, 2020
Inferential comprehension is necessary to connect ideas in a text together in a meaningful manner. There have been multiple studies on inferential comprehension involving texts of different genres (narrative and expository), but not a coherent overview of the findings of inferential comprehension by genre. The purpose of this study is to provide a…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Meta Analysis
Witte, Stephen P. – 1980
M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan have provided a system for analyzing the cohesive relations that enable a sequence of T-units to be considered a complete text. (A T-unit consists of a main clause and all its dependent clauses.) These concepts of cohesion proved effective in analyzing the differences between five "high" and five "low" quality essays…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
