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Peer reviewedBaker, William H. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Presents a procedure to compose or evaluate structurally sound text, encompassing inclusiveness, exclusiveness, hierarchy, sequence, and language. Offers guidelines for making text structure visible to the reader with headings, format, signals, reminders, and effective paragraphing. (SR)
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Reader Text Relationship, Technical Writing, Text Structure
Peer reviewedSharp, Drake – Reading Teacher, 1991
Offers a procedure to help students develop effective strategies for using labeled diagrams in their research projects. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Diagrams, Elementary Education, Illustrations
PDF pending restorationKnutson, Debra S. – 1996
For much of this century, text linguists have recognized that various tokens called "metadiscourse" may help explain how texts function. In linguistics, metadiscourse has a more concrete meaning than it typically does in composition: it refers to specific words, phrases, and clauses which are primarily intended to help the reader…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Linguistics, Readability
