Procedural text structure and reader perceptions and performance

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-35

  Diehl, Virginia A ^a   Mills, Carol Bergfeld ^b  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Procedural text; Reader perceptions of text; Reading time; Structural text variables

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; READING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036362137     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221300209602030     Document Type: Article

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