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Peer reviewedPorter, Jeffrey – College English, 1987
Shows how the enthymeme can organize a reader's participation in the text, specifically, George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition
Peer reviewedCrago, Hugh – College English, 1996
Charts the process by which, over some 10 years, one reader came to read a particular text "with full understanding." Indicates how crucial in that process were the complex, interacting influences of other, simpler literary texts, of the reader's own life experience, and (paradoxically) of "family" experience not consciously…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Family Role, Higher Education, Literature
Peer reviewedMcGee, Patrick – College English, 1987
Draws a parallel between the resistance experienced by a patient in psychoanalysis and the resistance expressed by students in composition or literature courses. (JC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College English, Literature Appreciation
