Macrostructure construction and organization in the processing of multiple text passages

Instructional Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 221-233

  Lacroix, Natasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Headings; Macrostructure construction; Macrostructure organization; Nonlinear text structure; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033435010     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00897320     Document Type: Article

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