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Publication details [#28425]

Goldman, Susan R., Elizabeth U. Saul and Nathalie Coté. 1995. Paragraphing, reader, and task effects on dicourse comprehension. Discourse Processes 20 (3) : 273–305.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

paragraph | reading | task-dependency of processing | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study, based on reader recall and summary of more and less familiar topics, explores the role of paragraphing in the identification of and the memory for main ideas as compared to elaborations in expository passages.