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Download full textMeyer, Bonnie J. F. – 1973
This paper identifies and describes three distinct variables on which prose passages can differ, from a linguistic point of view. Each of these variables relates to the way in which the content of prose is organized to convey meaning to the reader. The first variable is the position of information in a structure representing a passage's…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Content Analysis, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – 1973
The question of how people learn and remember information from complex written materials is explored by means of Grime's semantic grammar of propositions and the author's analysis of the content structure of prose. This paper, presented at the 1973 Interdisciplinary Meeting on Structural Learning, first discusses such elements of the semantic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Learning Processes, Memory
