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Peer reviewedMcNamara, Danielle S.; Kintsch, Walter – Discourse Processes, 1996
Investigates effects of prior knowledge on learning from high- and low-coherence history texts. Examines participants' comprehension in two experiments. Finds high-knowledge readers performed better on open-ended questions after reading low-coherence text. Indicates that low-coherence text requires more inference processes--these inferences are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Inferences, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedTrabasso, Tom; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1989
Describes a recursive transition network model that analyzes and represents a story as a causal network of categorized clauses and labeled relations. Reports on two experiments using procedural criteria to identify inferences and the assumptions that inferences operate over distances in the text and are transitive, resulting in a network…
Descriptors: Coherence, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
Download full textMcKenna, Marian J. – 1988
To discover what variables are involved in the production of text coherence, and how cohesion and coherence are different, a study collected 30 papers randomly selected from over 200 papers written by incoming freshmen college students at a local community college. The papers were rated by 21 state conference participants. Raters were in-service…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Clark, Henry T., III – 1989
A study examined the effect of amount of intervening text on the detection of semantic inconsistencies and use of strategic backtracking, by competent and less competent college readers. Data were elicited from 40 undergraduate students (selected on the basis of their high or low scores on a variety of instruments) enrolled in an introductory…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Coherence, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
PDF pending restorationLeTourneau, Mark S. – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
This paper proposes that a metaphor of linguistic levels, similar to that used in general linguistic theory, be applied to the study of levels within an essay. The linguistic conception of levels in a piece of writing is not sentence-paragraph-essay (which might be characterized as a rhetorical division) but rather (or in addition to)…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Definitions, Discourse Analysis
Bellows, B. P. – 1994
A study investigated how a knowledge or lack of knowledge of basic text structures, such as comparison and contrast and cause and effect, contributes to the reading process in remedial adolescent readers. By observing a group of graduate students and through the close study of a few adolescent case studies, a researcher attempted to determine if…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Coherence, Graduate Students
