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Direct linkMcCrudden, Matthew T.; Schraw, Gregory; Hartley, Kendall – Journal of Experimental Education, 2006
The relevance effect refers to the facilitative effect of relevance instructions on learning. The authors examined the effect of general prereading relevance instructions on fact and concept learning, essay quality, and reading time. College students either did or did not receive relevance instructions before reading an expository text.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Learning, Relevance (Education), Essays
Download full textDavis, Wes – Online Submission, 2006
This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that Francis Christensen's "Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence" (1967) would have on overall writing quality and the number of subordinate clauses attached to the main independent clauses for more complex sentences in college freshmen's essays. In the experimental group of 42 students,…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Experimental Groups, College Freshmen, Sentences
