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Meyer, 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
Pearson, Gregory – 1977
A propositional network system for representing the logical and semantic information contained in a text is described. The reliability of scoring information recalled from reading, using this representational system, is found to vary with the scoring goal. Determination of the amount of information recalled is found to be extremely reliable. A…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Learning Processes, Logic, Memory
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Fuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes
Zimmer, John W. – 1978
In an analysis of a processing activities model of memory applied to connected discourse, 206 college students assigned to eight conditions in two studies evidenced significantly greater recall when provided with semantic level tasks than either surface feature analysis or reading control (intentional and incidental) conditions. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Connected Discourse, Higher Education, Learning Processes