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Peer reviewedLong, Debra L.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1996
Explains how five experiments were conducted to examine readers' access to backgrounded causal information in the absence of a local coherence break. States that participants read surprise-ending stories in which some story actions were explained by information in the preceding context and others were not. Finds that participants receiving prior…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
