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Christian Tarchi; Ruth Villalón; Nina Vandermeulen; Lidia Casado-Ledesma; Anna Paola Fallaci – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
In university settings, writing argumentative essays from reading conflicting source texts is a common task for students. In performing this synthesis task, they must deal with conflicting claims about a controversial issue as they develop their own positions. Argumentative synthesis is characterized by writers' back-and-forth moves between…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Shinas, Valerie Harlow – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Online texts present unique challenges to readers, requiring them to interact with texts in ways that differ from their interactions with static, print texts (Kress, 2003; 2010; McKenna, 2003; Reinking, 1998). Due to the multimodal, multilayered, and nonlinear nature of online texts, readers may also employ strategies when they read online,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Electronic Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Wolfe, Joanna – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2008
Recent research on annotation interfaces provides provocative evidence that anchored, annotation-based discussion environments may lead to better conversations about a text. However, annotation interfaces raise complicated tradeoffs regarding screen real estate and positioning. It is argued that solving this screen real estate problem requires…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Protocol Analysis, Reading Strategies, Critical Thinking