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Direct linkSmith, Cheryl Hogue – Journal of Basic Writing, 2012
This article offers a revised version of transactional reading theory to explain how students classified as basic writers tend to employ counterproductive reading and thinking processes that inhibit them from full participation in academic life. Louise Rosenblatt proposes that readers have two main positions or purposes in reading--the efferent…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
