NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wolfe, Michael B.; Tanner, Shawna M.; Taylor, Andrew R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examine students' processing and representation of arguments and counterarguments in one-sided scientific texts. In Experiment 1, students read texts about evolution and TV violence. Sentence reading times indicated that subjects slowed down reading to the extent that arguments were both more consistent, and inconsistent, with the text…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Processing, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Mina; Roskos-Ewoldsen, Beverly; Roskos-Ewoldsen, David R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The Landscape Model of text comprehension was extended to the comprehension of audiovisual discourse from text and video TV news stories. Concepts from the story were coded for activation after each sequence, creating a matrix of activations that was reduced to a vector of the degree of total activation for each concept. In Study 1, the degree…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Television, Correlation, Models