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Kirkham, Roger L. – Personnel, 1987
The author discusses communication improvement strategies for personnel professionals. These include (1) thinking clearly, (2) focusing on audience response, and (3) categorizing to help readers relate ideas. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Personnel Management, Training
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Jessner, Ulrike – Language Awareness, 1999
Discusses the role of metalinguistic awareness in multilinguals within the framework of a systems-theoretic approach to multilingual proficiency. Data from trilingual adults on their use of certain problem-solving behavior in think-aloud protocols during the academic writing process are shown to provide evidence of certain processes taking place…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Proficiency, Metalinguistics
Kazemek, Francis E. – 1983
Using James Britton's model of discourse as a touchstone, this paper develops a theoretical base for writing instruction in adult literacy programs. The paper explores writing from an interactionist perspective that views writing as a complex recursive process in which the writer builds meaning with a text according to the purposes for writing,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Audience Analysis, Cognitive Processes
Hartnett, Carolyn G. – 1981
Proposing the theory that adult basic writers can learn to write better if they are taught to understand the mental processes that writing requires, this paper presents a brief teaching guide for systematic instruction in these processes. The paper first examines how ideas develop and then outlines the mental processes in rhetoric. Discussions of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
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Taylor, Karl K. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Compares the summary writing strategies used by professional writers, remedial college English students, and outstanding high school students. Concludes that the subjects fell into two groups--amateur and professional, with evident differences in reading processes, note taking, abstracting, monitoring, analyzing, and writing processes. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis