Text Processing: The Influence of Text Structure, Background Knowledge, and Purpose.

Birkmire, Deborah P.

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ERIC Number: EJ315193

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Publication Date: 1985

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Text Processing: The Influence of Text Structure, Background Knowledge, and Purpose.

Birkmire, Deborah P.

Reading Research Quarterly, v20 n3 p314-26 Spr 1985

Describes an experiment that explored the relationships between text structure, prior knowledge, and reader's purpose on the processing of text and memory for text information. Results demonstrated that the strategies used to read text are flexible. (HOD)

Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, College Students, Higher Education, Memory, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research, Reading Strategies, Sentence Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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