Effects of Knowledge of Semantic Roles on Summarizing Written Prose.

Christopherson, Steven L.

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Publication Date: 1981-Jan

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Effects of Knowledge of Semantic Roles on Summarizing Written Prose.

Christopherson, Steven L.

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v6 n1 p59-65 Jan 1981

College students wrote summaries of short passages to assess their ability to identify important information. Naive summaries judged as "better" contained more major semantic roles, such as agent, than did summaries judged "not as good". Students wrote better summaries when instructed to use major semantic roles within the passage. (Author/RD)

Descriptors: Control Groups, Discourse Analysis, Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Skills

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