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  Structure and content in eighth-graders' summary essays
 
 
Title: Structure and content in eighth-graders' summary essays
Author: Golden, Joanne
Haslett, Beth
Gauntt, Helen
Appeared in: Discourse processes
Paging: Volume 11 (1988) nr. 2 pages 139-162
Year: 1988-04
Contents: The present study investigates eighth-graders' summarizations of a scientific article used in their science class. Qualitative differences among students' summaries were found. Generally, the better summaries included significantly more information (in terms of details and key ideas); identified the dominant predicate more completely, and used more different rhetorical structures than did the poorer summaries. The most well-written essays reflected the text organization of the input essay (i.e., the author's original text). Students appear to be sensitive to the text organization and semantic content of the input essay, and draw upon these structures to construct their summaries. This study also developed and tested a coding scheme which reflected both structure and content of the summaries.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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