Effects of argument scaffolding and source credibility on science text comprehension

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 264-282

  Lin, Tzu Jung ^a   Horng, Ruey Yun ^b   Anderson, Richard C ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

argument schema; argumentation; source credibility; text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893948248     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220973.2013.769423     Document Type: Article

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