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Hsin, Lisa B.; Snow, Catherine E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
A novel instrument, the Features of Excellent Arguments task (FEXA), was developed to elicit adolescents' judgments about argumentative essays displaying to varying degrees features characteristic of strong persuasive writing: academic language, rich evidence, multiple perspectives, and rhetorical appeal. We collected students' categorical choices…
Descriptors: Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Decision Making, Writing Skills
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Blanc, Nathalie; Kendeou, Panayiota; van den Broek, Paul; Brouillet, Denis – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Two studies explored the conditions under which readers update their representation of news reports in the presence of alternative plausible explanations for a target event. To do so, this study asked readers to read news reports that mentioned 2 different causes to explain the occurrence of a single event. This study manipulated which of the 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Inferences, News Reporting