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Riefer, David M. – 1987
Two experiments investigated the effectiveness of reading backwards as a proofreading technique. Experiment 1 examined the general usefulness of backwards vs. forwards proofreading strategies and the effects of these strategies for two types of typographical errors: misspellings and contextual errors. Subjects, 36 undergraduate students at a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Editing, Error Patterns, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Michael – Reading Improvement, 1978
Concludes that subjects are misled by errors they make on earlier items in cloze tests. (RL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Context Clues, Error Patterns
Download full textSchnurr, Paula; Morris, William N. – 1982
A study was conducted to explore the generality of reconstructive processes of memory for social information. Sixty college students divided evenly into six experimental and control groups were asked to read one of two versions of a story: one in which a couple happily agreed not to have children, the other in which the man's desire to remain…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Memory
Peer reviewedWescott, Alice Legenza; Knafle, June D. – Reading Improvement, 1982
Concludes that there is a predictable error pattern between independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels for both American and English-as-a-second-language adults. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedBaggett, Patricia; Ehrenfeucht, Andrzej – Discourse Processes, 1982
Concludes that junior high school students encode movies better than prose, but that college students encode both equally well. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns
Dodd, William M. – 1984
A study examined the effect of five types of sentence faults on the method of information processing, recall ability, confidence rating, and comprehensibility rating of college freshman English students. The control text consisted of five passages and the accompanying comprehension questions exactly as they appear on the multiple choice Georgia…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: effects of methods of study, cognitive style, pre-information on the construction of written material, gender of generic pronouns, and study questions interspersed…
Descriptors: Adults, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Art Expression
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: use of word information cues by beginning readers; the relationship between problem solving and oral reading strategies; the ease with which children learn…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo
