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Christian Tarchi; Ruth Villalón; Nina Vandermeulen; Lidia Casado-Ledesma; Anna Paola Fallaci – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
In university settings, writing argumentative essays from reading conflicting source texts is a common task for students. In performing this synthesis task, they must deal with conflicting claims about a controversial issue as they develop their own positions. Argumentative synthesis is characterized by writers' back-and-forth moves between…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Mateos, Mar; Martin, Elena; Villalon, Ruth; Luna, Maria – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
The research reported here employed a multiple-case study methodology to assess the online cognitive and metacognitive activities of 15-year-old secondary students as they read informational texts and wrote a new text in order to learn, and the relation of these activities to the written products they were asked to generate. To investigate the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Processes, Secondary School Students, Reading