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Peer reviewedHass, Christina; Flower, Linda – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Asserts that teachers should help students move beyond an information-exchange view of reading to a more complex rhetorical model of constructing meaning. Reports on a study which investigated meaning constructions and compares the more traditional function/feature strategies of constructing meaning with rhetorical strategies, which construct…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPetersen, Bruce T.; Burkland, Jill N. – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Describes a method used to teach freshman students how to make research a conscious part of their reading and writing processes, by helping them use their personal associations with a text and their questions about a text, to compose meaning and become conscious of the activities they are performing. (HTH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Higher Education, Metacognition
