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Peer reviewedFishman, Anne Stevens – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
According to a theory of textual cohesion, anaphoric references and noun phrase organizers may serve as cohesive ties linking separate sentences into unified paragraphs. This study revealed that only the noun phrase organizer condition was significant in promoting comprehension and indicated no difference in time scores by paragraph condition.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Nouns, Paragraphs
