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Van Nostrand, A. D. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Argues that all the various genres of documents produced in military research and development formulate some sort of problem. Discusses problem formulation and offers a rhetorical map showing their structural relationships to each other. (SR)
Descriptors: Research and Development, Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Text Structure

Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes, 1997
Presents a text-linguistic definition of the difference between semantic and pragmatic relations. Shows that the type of context (descriptive, argumentative) appeared not to influence language users' interpretation of clear cases, whereas their judgments of ambiguous relations were influenced by the type of context. Finds informative texts are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Definitions, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics

Sanford, Ellie – Popular Measurement, 2000
Describes the development of a Spanish version of the Lexile Framework(R) and a Spanish readability equation. Discusses some differences between Spanish and English and how these differences affect the development of the Lexile measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Spanish

Many, Joyce E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1996
Explores the ways in which 11- and 12-year-old students used intertextuality within diverse literacy events in a classroom context. Reveals different patterns of intertextual connections depending on discourse mode (oral or written) and the functional context of discourse (literary or informational) in terms of the types of sources to which…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Text Structure
Wylie, Judith; McGuinness, Carol – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Background: Interest in the interactive effects of prior knowledge and text structure on learning from text is increasing but experimental manipulations of knowledge and structure variables often produce findings that do not help teachers to select expository texts for students. Aims: We aimed to extend the ecological validity of previous findings…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Prior Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Text Structure
Gately, Susan E. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
It is a challenge for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to integrate language, social understanding, and emotional intent of messages to understand their social world. They often have deficits in language and social cognition and difficulty interpreting and labeling emotions and incorporating or integrating each of these aspects of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, Autism
Faull, Tamzin – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
There appears to be little research on the standard of post-16 students' writing and how it can be improved. In respect of such students, the focus of teaching professionals seems to be on content rather than on the writing process; arguably this leads to weaknesses in written expression. This article examines some current research and follows one…
Descriptors: English Literature, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Reflection
McVicker, Claudia J. – Reading Teacher, 2007
Teachers can use comics for reading instruction by capitalizing on their colorful graphic representation. Technology and reading are wed during the use of the Internet, and readers must rely on their visual literacy skills--a group of vision competencies people can hone for comprehension. This article reports on strategies for developing visual…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Cartoons, Text Structure, Reading Skills
Murray, Joel K.; Bowman, Michael S. – 1987
A brief reading of "Desire under the Elms" by Eugene O'Neill illustrates how a conventional Oedipal reading of the playscript opens up spaces within the text for deconstructive free-play. In this case, a tension is identified and foregrounded between this conventional application of the Oedipal complex and Freud's interpretation of the…
Descriptors: Drama, Literary Criticism, Mythology, Text Structure
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 2002
This paper advances the bio-kinetic hypothesis that the Agent-action-Objective (AaO) axiom constitutes the only valid foundation for a behavioral expression of the informational dimensions contained in natural language. Based on the bookkeeping capacity of the discovered AaO mechanism, it is shown that this mechanism can capture emergent (AaO)…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes, Text Structure, Translation

Lehman, Stephen; Schraw, Gregory – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Examines the effects of coherence and relevance on shallow and deeper text processing, testing the hypothesis that enhancing the relevance of text segments compensates for breaks in local and global coherence. Results reveal that breaks in local coherence had no effect on any outcome measures, whereas relevance enhanced deeper processing.…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Text Structure

Kerper, Janeen – Journal of Legal Education, 2001
Focusing on law school texts, reviews literature on the readability of texts and on the limitations of human cognition. The discussion includes a brief history of applicable design principles, a description of empirical studies supporting them, a discussion of the advantages of structured text, and an analysis of some implications of these design…
Descriptors: Design, Instructional Materials, Legal Education (Professions), Readability

Fletcher, Charles R.; Chrysler, Susan T. – Discourse Processes, 1990
Presents evidence that indicates recognition memory consists of three separate representations: a surface representation, a propositional textbase, and a situation model. (KEH)
Descriptors: Memory, Models, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research
Barton, Ben F.; Barton, Marthalee S. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1990
Explores the relation of word and image on the level of both theory and practice in Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." Establishes two dissonant strands in Tufte's work, a positivist strand and a postmodernist strand. (RS)
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Rhetorical Theory, Technical Illustration, Technical Writing

Isaacson, David – RQ, 1989
Questions the conventional assumption that reference books should simply be regarded as objective containers of information, and argues that personal style is sometimes an important element in the evaluation of reference books and that subjectivity and expressions of feeling may be as valuable as objectivity, detachment, and impersonality. (23…
Descriptors: Humor, Literary Styles, Objectivity, Readability