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Peer reviewedSpyridakis, Jan H. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1989
Reviews previous research on the effects of signals (structural cues that announce or emphasize content or reveal content relationships) on readers' comprehension of expository prose. Concludes that inconsistent results are due to inadequate methodologies that fail to control for confounding variables, such as text length and difficulty, topic…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing
Peer reviewedSpyridakis, Jan H. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1989
Investigates the role of signaling (structural cues that announce or emphasize content or reveal content relationships) in helping good readers comprehend expository text. Finds that signals do improve a reader's comprehension, particularly comprehension two weeks after the reading of a passage and comprehension of superordinate and superordinate…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMulcahy, Patricia I.; Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Psychology, 1987
Argues that comprehension is a problem-solving activity and that different problem-solving schemata exist for different types of texts, both narrative and expository. Suggests that good comprehension occurs when there is a match between the author's schemata and that of the reader, creating a dialogue between the writer and the reader. (JK)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing
