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Church, Elizabeth; Bereiter, Carl – Language Arts, 1983
Describes a study that examined the ways students responded to the styles of texts and that also looked at the effects of repeated reading of the same passage and different task instructions. (JL)
Descriptors: Literary Styles, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Church, Elizabeth; Bereiter, Carl – 1984
A study assessed the ability of 20 eleventh grade students to recognize particular stylistic features when reading and then to use such features in their writing. Half the subjects were given a model paragraph from an Edgar Allen Poe story, without having the story identified for them, while the other half received only a verbal summary of the…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High Schools, Language Styles, Literary Genres