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Peer reviewedWilliams, Thomas R.; Butterfield, Earl C. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1992
Investigates whether advance organizers facilitate the acquisition of subordinate information from text. Examines the influences of reader's background knowledge, advance organizers, relative importance of idea units, and idea units' position within a text structure on the recall of textual information. (SR)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
