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Publication details [#53401]

McNamara, Danielle S., Yasuhiro Ozuru, Stephen Briner and Rachel Best. 2010. Contributions of Self-Explanation to Comprehension of High- and Low-Cohesion Texts. Discourse Processes 47 (8) : 641–667.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | conceptualization | inference | text analysis | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study argues that a crucial contribution of self-explanation to text comprehension is to engender active inference processes that help readers complement conceptual gaps in complex texts.