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Newell, George E.; Winograd, Peter – Written Communication, 1989
Examines the effects of various writing tasks (notetaking, answering study questions, and essay writing) on learning, using recall of specific text elements and recall of the theme or gist of expository writing. Finds that students' topic knowledge, passage content structure, and the nature of the task influence students' text comprehension. (MM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Effect, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension
Heller, Mary F. – 1980
A study investigated the reading comprehension of 34 college freshmen in relation to the presence of 20 syntactic elements of written language in their expository writing. Language samples included one silent reading comprehension test that identified "high" and "low" readers and two expository in-class themes, one developed…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Correlation, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
In response to teachers' requests for specific information about implementing the curriculum in the Expository Writing Program (EWP), this manual presents the instructional methods and materials used during the Teaching Expository Reading and Writing Project. First, the lines of research that formed the basis for the instructional program are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research

Graves, Michael F.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1988
Reports two studies of comprehensible and memorable expository writing. Finds that Time-Life editors' revisions of a high school history text improved eleventh grade students' recall, while revisions made by text linguists and composition instructors did not. But given latitude to change content, all editors' revisions improved recall. (RAE)
Descriptors: Editors, Expository Writing, Grade 11, Higher Education

Gordon, Christine J. – English Quarterly, 1990
Traces the revision of narrative and expository text made by sixth grade students during a school year in which the focus was on improving reading comprehension and writing through instruction in text structure. Finds that only expository texts were judged to improve in writing quality by year end. (MG)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a vareity of topics, including the following: (1) the interrelationship of reading and writing in the composing process; (2) the relationship between composition teachers' ability to write and the writing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Cohesion (Written Composition), Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effects of syntactic differences between oral and written discourse on the reading comprehension of second and fifth grade students; (2) the effects of a sentence combining…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
The second phase of a 3-year project examining the effect of a process approach to writing instruction on students' expository reading and writing skills, a study determined the impact of three writing programs that emphasized different aspects of a process-oriented writing environment. Data were gathered from 159 fifth and sixth grade students…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Comprehension