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Sternglass, Marilyn – 1983
An examination of student papers from three universities on the same tasks revealed that expository writing tasks were less demanding cognitively than argumentative writing tasks and that argumentative writing tasks were less demanding than speculative tasks. Another finding was that when students were able to translate a generalized task into…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Expository Writing
