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Granado-Peinado, Miriam; Cuevas, Isabel; Olmos, Ricardo; Martín, Elena; Casado-Ledesma, Lidia; Mateos, Mar – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
In writing argumentative syntheses from multiple and contradictory sources, students must contrast and integrate different perspectives on a topic or issue. This complex task of source-based argumentation has been shown to be effective for learning, but it has also been shown to be quite challenging. Because of the challenges, educational…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Collaborative Writing, Undergraduate Students, Intervention
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Arfé, Barbara; Mason, Lucia; Fajardo, Inmaculada – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Direct instruction of reading strategies, such as the 'structure strategy', is demonstrated to be effective for the development of more mature and skilled reading processes in struggling readers. This instructional intervention approach, aimed at directly improving reading ability, can be used in combination with text simplification. Text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Text Structure, Reading Difficulties, Reading Strategies