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Goldstein, Elizabeth; Perfetti, Charles – 1980
In a study conducted to show the importance of sentence connections as a way of looking at a writer's cognitive processes, three devices used to achieve coherence in written discourse were compared and proved to be unequally effective. The devices were cohesion (use of a textual reference in a sentence that has an antecedent in a preceding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedStahl, Abraham – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
A rating instrument for describing nine structural characteristics of written compositions is presented and explained. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkKools, Marieke; Ruiter, Robert A. C.; van de Wiel, Margaretha W. J.; Kok, Gerjo – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
The aim of this study was to gain insight into the extent to which health education text writers apply writing principles derived from cognitive psychological theory. Seventeen professional text writers of health education materials participated in a qualitative study, consisting of a rewriting task combined with a think-aloud procedure and a…
Descriptors: Health Education, Rhetoric, Psychological Studies, Protocol Analysis
Goldstein, Elizabeth Odoroff – 1980
It was hypothesized that writers of sentence pairs with clear relationships would have better recall of second sentences than would writers of sentence pairs with unclear relationships. Clear connections between sentences in sentence pairs were defined as those sentences in which the language of the first sentence was explicitly picked up in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse
