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Peer reviewedPorter, 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
Peer reviewedVoss, Margaret M. – Language Arts, 1988
Recounts specific examples in the life of a three-year-old which illustrate how he began making connections between print and meaning and using what he learned from literature to expand his knowledge of the world. Notes literature is not only a powerful influence but also a very natural one. (NH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedNist, Sherrie L.; Hogrebe, Mark C. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Explores opposing theoretical views on the effects of text underlining and reports on a study of 67 college freshmen. Finds that the subjects who generated their own underlining did not perform significantly better than those who were given experimenter-generated marking. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Critical Reading, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMarshall, 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
Pahl, Michele M. – 1987
Proceeding from a definition of "story schema" as an idealized internal representation of the parts of a typical story and the relationships among those parts, this paper explores the role of story schemata in reading comprehension. The paper also identifies variables that may affect the way in which schemata function and outlines the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Listening Skills
Download full textKintsch, Eileen – 1989
A study investigated how students' mental representation of an expository text and the inferences they used in summarizing varied as a function of text difficulty and of differences in the task. Subjects, 96 college students and students from grades 6 and 10, wrote summaries of expository texts and answered orally several probe questions about the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Difficulty Level
Clark, Margaret M., Ed. – 1985
Reflecting recent insights on the process of learning to read and its relationship to oral language development and writing, the articles in this book provide a range of perspectives, ideas for further empirical investigations in classrooms, extensive reference lists for further reading, and implications for practice throughout a child's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Reinking, David, Ed. – 1987
Embodying two themes--that the computer can become an even more exciting instructional tool than it is today, and that the research necessary for developing the potential of this tool is already underway, this book explores the theoretical, research, and instructional issues concerning computers and reading. The titles of the essays and their…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
