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Wade, Suzanne; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Argues that an article by E. Goetz and M. Sadoski in the same issue of this journal is not only inaccurate in its criticisms but is inconsistent in its claims relevant to the research on the memorability of highly interesting but unimportant textual content, also known as "seductive details." (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Goetz, Ernest T.; Sadoski, Mark – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Replies to another article in the same issue of this journal concerning research on "seductive details" (in which a reader's attention is diverted toward the interesting but unimportant seductive details and away from the uninteresting but important main ideas). Reasserts that there is insufficient evidence to convict seductive details…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Golden, Joanne M.; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1986
Describes a reader response study indicating (1) a high degree of agreement on reader beliefs and text events and (2) that students who empathized with a particular character identified the story conflict as pertaining to that character. Suggests specific reader-based and text-based factors that produce convergence and divergence in reader…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Literature, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship