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Alvermann, Donna E.; Hynd, Cynthia R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1989
Results are reported from a study which showed that activating competent readers' naive conceptions about a complex science concept is not as effective in dispelling inaccurate information as activating their naive conceptions and then explicitly directing them to read and attend to ideas that might differ from their own. (IAH)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Higher Education, Physics, Prior Learning
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Daugherty, Pat – Reading Teacher, 1989
Outlines a series of activities using story writing to teach first grade students about story structure. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Teaching Methods
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Martin, Bruce K. – College English, 1989
Suggests an approach to literature (derived from post-structuralism and deconstructionism) which goes beyond the concept of "teacher as authority," without totally abandoning form or structure. Demonstrates this approach in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Philip Larkin's poem "High…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Reader Response
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Black, Alison; Watts, Darren – Visible Language, 1993
Examines the impact on proofreading accuracy of setting text in monospaced typewriter faces and proportionally spaced typefaces. Finds no significant differences. Notes that proofreading suffered when an irregularly spaced typeface was used. Suggests that text may be checked more thoroughly if its format suggests provisionality. (RS)
Descriptors: Error Correction, Higher Education, Proofreading, Reader Text Relationship
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Kirsch, Irwin S., Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1993
Discusses three types of integration tasks in reading, rank ordering, first-level integration (looking for similarities within a list of items), and second-level integration tasks (looking for differences). Offers classroom extension activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Reading Processes
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Kirsch, Irwin S.; Mosenthal, Peter B. – Journal of Reading, 1993
Discusses using the procedures of identification, problem formulation, and computation to solve two different types of math document problems: those involving locate procedures and those involving cycling procedures. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Processes
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Craven, Timothy C. – Information Processing and Management, 1991
Discussion of graph-drawing algorithms compares and evaluates five algorithms for generated automatic graphic display of sentence dependency structures that have been implemented in the TEXTNET text structure management system. Evaluation criteria are discussed, and a test of the algorithms with a database of newspaper articles is described. (16…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Comparative Analysis, Database Management Systems, Databases
Wu, Marion Hui Hua – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1992
Based on an earlier study of the lexico-grammatical behavior of verbs in certain texts, this paper examines the associated features that characterize engineering texts to determine whether they co-occur frequently enough to distinguish "engineering English" as a recognizable genre. (18 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Engineering, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Henk, William A.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1993
Assesses prior knowledge and involvement in high school readers whose backgrounds would seem to match the possible interpretations of an ambiguous text. Finds that (1) prior knowledge resulting from actual group membership exerted only a modest effect on interpretation; (2) readers' level of involvement predicted text interpretation reliably; and…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, High School Students, High Schools, Prior Learning
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Runquist, Mark – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1992
Investigates the role that ethos takes in the scientific papers of American glacial geologists. Analyzes the rhetorical strategies of five articles spanning the time period from 1839-1988. Discovers a coherent evolution of rhetorical strategies over this time period. (HB)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Geology, Higher Education, Rhetoric
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Wade, Suzanne E.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1993
Investigates how interest and importance interact to affect the strategy use and recall of skilled readers. Finds that readers acted strategically, except when they encountered seductive details: subjects spent a great deal of time on seductive details, even though they considered them highly memorable and unimportant. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
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Schirmer, Barbara R.; Winter, Christa R. – Reading Improvement, 1993
Finds that children who are deaf use textual schemata (rather than content schema activated through thematic organizers) for comprehension processing while reading narrative text. (SR)
Descriptors: Deafness, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
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Petros, Thomas V.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1990
Examines the components of text that predict reading times and recall in skilled and less skilled college readers. Finds that sensitivity to the structure of the text was not a source of reading-ability differences in reading times and recall. Suggests that reading-ability differences result from word-decoding factors and the efficiency of…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Rate
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Jarvella, Robert J.; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1992
Studies error detection by Swedish children. Finds that the sixth-grade children were better at the task, that errors were easiest to detect while listening, that errors were easiest to detect from paper copy, but that fourth graders detected more errors when reading from the moving window. (RS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
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Urion, Marilyn Vogler – Computers and Composition, 1995
Discusses Julia Kristeva's notion of text--the tension between the semiotic and the symbolic--and how the tension can be made visible through typeface variation and other shaping techniques possible with word-processing software. Shares ways the author encourages students in first-year English classes to explore possibilities for incorporating…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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