Interest in an expository text: How does it flow from reading to writing?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-480

  Boscolo, Pietro ^a   Ariasi, Nicola ^a   Del Favero, Laura ^a   Ballarin, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Reading to write; Text based interest; Topic interest; Writing task

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751526949     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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