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Sternglass, Marilyn – 1982
People construct macrostructures to reduce and organize incoming semantic information. When they make a prediction on a paper's outcome based on the work's first sentence or paragraph, readers are using preliminary input to construct a macroproposition about the paper's focus. The macrostructure may be explicitly stated--either in the opening…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Thinking, Higher Education
