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Eva-Wood, Amy L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Assuming that readers' emotional responses can enhance readers' metacognitive experiences and inform literary analysis, this study of 11th-grade poetry readers features instruction that models both cognitive and affective reading processes. The author: (1) Presents a case for more explicit attention to emotion in language arts classrooms; (2)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Literary Criticism, Metacognition, Reading Processes
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Porter, Jeffrey – College English, 1987
Shows how the enthymeme can organize a reader's participation in the text, specifically, George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Sadoski, Mark; And Others – 1985
The spontaneous use of imaging and its relationships to verbal recall and literary analysis were investigated in a study in which 72 college students read a literary text under one of three sets of instructions that manipulated processing depth in an externally valid fashion. Imagery reports and free verbal recalls of the story were collected…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Imagery, Literary Criticism
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Anderson, Babs – Education 3-13, 2005
Reporting on a piece of small-scale research, this article considers the notion of a community of enquiry within the context of a Year 2 class. It suggests that the community of enquiry approach can provide a framework to support young children, comprehension in literacy and also has clear benefits in regard to young children's citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Young Children, Fiction, Discourse Communities
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Marshall, James D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Examines effects of three writing tasks on students' writing, writing processes, and later understanding of short stories. Results indicate that personal analytic and formal analytic writing were associated with significantly higher posttest scores on literature than restricted writing in the form of short answer questions. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Higher Education, Literary Criticism