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Peer reviewedMacLean, Margaret; Chapman, L. John – Journal of Research in Reading, 1989
Investigates how readers use textual cohesion during reading by using a selective deletion procedure. Finds that good readers are able to maintain the global unity of text better than poor readers and that both groups find it easier to perceive cohesion in fiction than in non-fiction. (RS)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction, Foreign Countries
