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Publication details [#28417]

Bergfeld Mills, Carol, Virginia A. Diehl, Deborah P. Birkmire and Lien-Chong Mou. 1995. Reading procedural texts: Effects of purpose for reading and predictions of reading comprehension models. Discourse Processes 20 (1) : 79–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

procedure | purpose | reading | text type | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study analyzes the effects of two purposes for reading, i.e. read-to-do and read-to-recall, and the predictive power of two text comprehension models for procedural text processing.