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Direct linkLorch, Robert F., Jr.; Lemarie, Julie; Grant, Russell A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Text signals include a wide variety of writing devices that emphasize specific content within a text, the organization of a text, or both (Lorch, 1989; Meyer, 1975). Signals presumably evolved as a means for an author to guide readers' processing of a text by making the text structure and important content more salient to the reader. Although…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Theories, Expository Writing
