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Cirilo, Randolph K.; Foss, Donald J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Explores two approaches to discourse structure and comprehension. Illustrates that prior knowledge is ued in conjunction with cues to construct the macrostructure of the story. Provides evidence that text comprehension is based on the presentation of the propositions of the story. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Connected Discourse, Cues, Decoding (Reading)
PDF pending restorationMoe, Alden J. – 1978
Comprehension is a process that occurs within the reader and is at least partially dependent on cohesion and coherence. The concept of cohesion is used to show how sentences which are structurally independent of one another may be linked together. Cohesion exists within a text and is not the same as coherence, which is something the reader…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse
