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Reading, Writing, and Knowing: The Role of Disciplinary Knowledge in Comprehension and Composing. Technical Report No. 40.
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Ackerman, John M. – 1990
A study explored how writers with extensive experience and learning in an academic discipline used both topical and rhetorical knowledge to construct synthesis essays. Subjects, 20 psychology graduate students and 20 business graduate students, wrote synthesis essays on either the topics of "supply-side economics" or "rehearsal in…
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