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Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
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Beach, Richard; Bigelow, Martha; Brendler, Beth; Dillon, Deborah; Frederick, Amy; Gabrielli, Michelle; Helman, Lori; Kapoor, Richa; Ngo, Bic; O'Brien, David; Rambow, Adam; Scharber, Cassie; Sethi, Jenna; Liang, Lauren; Braaksma, Martine; Janssen, Tanja – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
"Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE) is the flagship research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Journal Articles, Multidimensional Scaling, English Instruction
Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre
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Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This research examined readers' knowledge of popular genres. Participants wrote short essays on fantasy, science fiction, or romance. The similarities among the essays were measured using latent semantic analysis (LSA) and were then analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. The clusters and scales were interpreted by searching…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Knowledge Level, Reading, Essays
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
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Beach, Richard; Bigelow, Martha; Dillon, Deborah; Galda, Lee; Helman, Lori; Kalnin, Julie; Lewis, Cynthia; O'Brien, David; Sato, Mistilina; Jorgensen, Karen; Liang, Lauren; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Janssen, Tanja – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
"Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE) is the flagship research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, English Instruction, Journal Articles, Discourse Analysis
Strategies for Distributing Time When Studying Text: An Exploratory Cluster-Analysis Approach.
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Freebody, Peter; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1986
Indicates that membership in pausing and skimming clusters appears to relate to text comprehension, grade level, and rated academic ability, but that these relationships are not all simple or direct. Finds that the cluster-analytic approach provides a useful empirical adjunct to current theoretical perspectives on text analysis and reading…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cluster Analysis, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
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Beach, Richard; Bigelow, Martha; DeLapp, Peggy; Dillon, Deborah; Galda, Lee; Helman, Lori; Kalnin, Julie; Lensmire, Timothy; O'Brien, David; Jorgensen, Karen; Liang, Lauren; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Janssen, Tanja – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
Research in the Teaching of English (RTE) is the flagship research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the teaching and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Journal Articles, Multidimensional Scaling, Discourse Analysis
Dysfluency and Topic Orientation in Bereaved Individuals: Bridging Individual and Group Studies.
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Stinson, Charles H.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Examined discourse of bereaved individuals using computer-based text analyses. Compared discourse structure of low-distress bereaved individuals, high-distress bereaved subjects, and a single bereaved individual. Meaningful differences between the distress groups and the single individual indicate possible quantitative and qualitative means for…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
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Beach, Richard; DeLapp, Peggy; Galda, Lee; Helman, Lori; Lensmire, Timothy; O'Brien, David; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Janssen, Tanja – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
"Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE) is the flagship research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, English Instruction, Scholarship, Discourse Analysis
Verbal Exchange Structure of Brief Psychodynamic-Interpersonal and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy.
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Stiles, William B.; Shapiro, David A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Explores verbal exchange structure (2 people's cooccurring speech-act categories that accomplish some subtask within an interpersonal encounter) of two psychotherapeutic approaches used with 39 depressed clients. Analyzed verbal response mode frequencies in 1,630 segments. Exchanges showed distinctive temporal patterns across segments of sessions…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counselor Client Relationship