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PDF pending restorationLorch, Elizabeth Pugzles; Lorch, Robert F., Jr. – 1984
One hundred thirty-nine college students participated in an experiment designed to examine the basis of their abilities to make relative importance distinctions among ideas in a text while reading. Subjects read two texts of 13 paragraphs each. The topics of the two texts were unrelated, but their topic structure was similar. For each of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Language Processing
