Is It All in the Telling? : A Study of the Role of Text Schemas and Schematic Text Structures in the Recall and Comprehension of Printed News Stories / Meenakshi Gigi Durham.

This study hypothesized that altering a news story to conform to a more familiar structure might increase comprehension and recall. Subjects, 104 undergraduate students, completed a Media Use Survey, a questionnaire for collecting demographic information, the WIRE test, a strength of text schema mea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Durham, Meenakshi Gigi
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
Subjects:	Higher Education. Reading Comprehension. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Reading Skills. Recall (Psychology) Schemata (Cognition) Text Structure. Text Factors News Stories > Text Processing (Reading) Speeches/Meeting Papers. Reports, Research.
Genre:	Speeches/Meeting Papers. Reports, Research.
Physical Description:	52 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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