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Omanson, Richard C. – Discourse Processes, 1982
Presents an analysis of prose narratives that allows content to be identified as central and provides a priori rationale for why the content is central. Investigates which content is supportive of, or distracting to, the central content. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Learning Theories
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Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1983
Use of cognitive capacity was measured during reading of text in six experiments. Results were consistent with a comprehensibility theory stating that when more meaning is produced in reader's cognitive system while reading a text, more cognitive capacity is filled by reading it. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Expository Writing, Higher Education
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Stenning, Keith; Michell, Lynn – Discourse Processes, 1985
Reports the results of a study showing that one stylistic feature, the inclusion of connectives other than "and/then" is a good predictor of explanation in five- to ten-year-olds, but a straightforward lack of linguistic resources is not necessarily what limits older children's achievement of explanatory narrative. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
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Goelman, Hillel – Discourse Processes, 1982
Concludes that children could attend to texts selectively when reading or listening to expository prose, and when reading, but not in listening to narrative prose. (FL)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis