Understanding Expository Text: A Theoretical and Practical Handbook for Analyzing Explanatory Text

ISBN-13: 9781138296558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 422 str.

Opis

Originally published in 1985, the various chapters in this volume give examples of research on all three aspects of text understanding – namely, structure, world knowledge and process.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theories of Text Analysis  1. Understanding Expository Text: From Structure to Process and World Knowledge Bruce K. Britton and John B. Black  2. Prose Analysis: Purposes, Procedures, and Problems Bonnie J.F. Meyer  3. Structural Analysis of Science Prose: Can We Increase Problem-Solving Performance? Richard E. Mayer  4. Thematic Processes in the Comprehension of Technical Prose David E. Kieras  5. Implicit Knowledge, Question Answering, and the Representation of Expository Text Arthur C. Graesser and Sharon M. Goodman  6. Knowledge and the Processing of Narrative and Expository Texts James F. Voss and Gay L. Bisanz  7. A Knowledge-Based Model of Prose Comprehension: Applications to Expository Texts James R. Miller  8. Cognitive Demands of Processing Expository Text: A Cognitive Workbench Model Bruce K. Britton, Shawn M. Glynn and Jeffrey W. Smith  9. An Exposition on Understanding Expository Text John B. Black  Part 2: A Research Handbook for Text and World Knowledge Analysis  10. Prose Analysis: Purposes, Procedures, and Problems (Part II) Bonnie J.F. Meyer  11. How to Analyze Science Prose Richard E. Mayer  12. A Guide to Propositional Analysis for Research on Technical Prose Susan Bovair and David E. Kieras  13. How to Construct Conceptual Graph Structures Arthur C. Graesser and Sharon M. Goodman  14. Knowledge and the Processing of Narrative and Expository Text: Some Methodological Issues James F. Voss and Gay L. Bisanz  15. A Knowledge-Based Model of Prose Comprehension: An Annotated Trace James R. Miller.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Bruce K. Britton, John B. Black