Students making sense of informational text: Relations between processing and representation

Discourse Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-53

  Coté, Nathalie ^a   Goldman, Susan R ^a   Saul, Elizabeth U ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0003092892     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638539809545019     Document Type: Article

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