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Hoang, Thi Van Yen; Rojas-Lizana, Isolda – Cogent Education, 2015
This article shows how universities represent themselves through the use of language on their institutional websites. Specifically, it compares and contrasts how a long established university, the University of Melbourne and a young university, Macquarie University construct their institutional identities and build up a relationship with potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Web Sites, Universities
Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2010
Electronic readers may be ushering in a watershed moment in personal reading, with the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, and Barnes & Noble Nook duking it out for market dominance (and with the iPad warming up in the wings). But how do these contenders fare in the academic marketplace? When it comes to meeting the demands of academic reading,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Content Area Reading, Handheld Devices, Comparative Analysis
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Yussen, Steven R.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1991
In three experiments, 172 college students repeatedly read and recalled stories presented in good and poor form to determine whether the memory-enhancing effect of good text organization is transitory or long-lasting and whether it pertains to forgetting as well as learning. Advantages of good form are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Learning
Hynds, Susan; Garrison, Brigitte – 1991
A study generated a system for describing and analyzing the shifting focus from reader to text in written responses to literature, and explored the stances that readers adopt as they focus on personal, textual, and extra-textual concerns. Ten proficient and 10 less proficient undergraduate readers engaged in open-ended, exploratory written…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Higher Education
Wyatt, Monica; Hayes, David A. – 1990
A study investigated the use of study guides as instructional tools and compared the effectiveness of study guides with and without analogies. Seventy-four undergraduate students in three upper division education classes studied three passages about three obscure religions (Manichaeism, Jainism, and the Druze religion) with and without the aid of…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship
Chafe, Wallace – 1990
Ease of language processing varies with the nature of the language involved. Ordinary spoken language is the easiest kind to produce and understand, while writing is a relatively new development. On thoughtful inspection, the readability of writing has shown itself to be a complex topic requiring insights from many academic disciplines and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Processing
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Weiss, Arlene Soffer; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Concludes that vocabulary knowledge can produce effects on reading comprehension, but that the nature of the effects depends on the method used to present the knowledge and the manner used to measure reading comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Measurement Techniques
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Abramovici, Shimon – Journal of Research in Reading, 1990
Examines the "levels effect" (the theory that more important text elements are more likely to be remembered than less important elements) in children and adults when reading expository text. Finds differences between adults and children in the extent to which they engaged in the type of processing that resulted in levels effects. (MG)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Earthman, Elise Ann – 1989
A study examined the ways in which college readers interact with literary texts. The method of interviews and think-along protocols, in which a text was read aloud by the subject while he simultaneously verbalized his thoughts, was used to compare the reading processes of eight college freshman to those of eight masters students in literature who…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Hunt, Russell A.; Vipond, Douglas – 1987
To learn more about how people read literary texts, with a view to improving the way literature is taught in schools, a study examined the extent to which the reading of literature is affected by variations in readers, texts, and situations. Subjects, 12 skilled (faculty) readers and 96 novice (undergraduate) readers, read a short story, either in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Young, Beth Rapp – 1996
What is pleasing about hypertext is what has always been pleasing about genre fiction: the creative process of reading. Genre novels are written to a formula--and often called formula fiction. Critics say they are written to make money and to make money only. According to C. S. Lewis, they "rot the mind." If looked at from the standpoint…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Fiction, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Kunz, Gunnar C.; And Others – 1989
Two studies analyzed self-regulatory cognitions of students asked to study complex instruction texts; examined the relationship between self-regulation and performance; assessed self-regulatory processes during learning from text in detail; and examined how pictures integrated in instructional text were processed by learners with different degrees…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries