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Zhou, Xiaoying; Liao, Hangjie – English Language Teaching, 2018
In this paper the authors conducted a comprehensive study on English abstract writing style. Abstraction is the process of forming a theoretical concept based on the observation and classification of object things. This concept has no definite denotation. However in specific situation it can be clearly understood. In English, writing an abstract…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, English, Chinese, Literary Styles
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Barrouillet, Pierre; Markovits, Henry; Quinn, Stephane – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Tested with adolescents and adults two predictions from Markovits and Barrouillet's developmental model of conditional reasoning related to the effects of the association between antecedent and consequent terms and the formulation of the minor premise on uncertainty responses. Found results consistent with hypotheses and indicating importance of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences