Much of the recent research on discourse comprehension has centered on the readers’ ability to construct coherent mental representations of texts. In order to form a unifi ed representation of a given text, a reader must be able to join the information presented in the text with his/her background knowledge to construe the meaning that may not be explicitly stated, through the generation of inf...

In the process of abstract extraction, two heuristics are used. First, the content of a page is organized semantically by paragraphs. Second, readers can quickly catch the ideas of the page with only a small quantity of sentences, and the sentences are generally located by key-words. Based on these heuristics, we can acquire an algorithm that will simulate the browsing manner of a reader to ext...

Background: The objective of writing instruction is to equip students with the ability proficiently comprehend and produce various types texts, such as monologues, paragraphs, or essays. So, finding applying appropriate teaching methods teach skills necessary. Methods: subjects this research were at grade VIII SMP Negeri 3 Bambalamotu that consisted 22 students. This was Classroom Action Resear...

Background. A primary question among L2 writing instructors is how to best deliver written corrective feedback (WCF) support student learning. One promising WCF method Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback, in which provide unfocused/comprehensive using a coding system coupled with regular rounds of editing on short, in-class student-written paragraphs.
 Purpose. In this study, I explored th...

Someone has to go last and in this case the honor falls to Mike Byrne. I did not commission Mike to write “a last chapter” but that is what he did. In a way his chapter 30 and my chapter 1 can be viewed as bookends for the 28 chapters that lie between. I began the book with a short essay on three types of control of cognition that need to be considered when building integrated models of cogniti...

We examined the brain areas involved in discourse processing by using functional MRI in 10 individuals as they read paragraphs, with or without a title, word by word for comprehension. Functional data were collected from 20 adjacent 5 mm axial slices. Discourse processing was associated with activation in inferior frontal and temporal regions of both cerebral hemispheres in the titled and untit...

Two aspects of memory for prose were investigated, the amount of information remembered and the semantic interpretation assigned to ambiguous paragraphs. Task instructions and exposure duration of the passages were manipulated to induce different levels of processing and affect amount of information retained. In order to influence the interpretation of the ambiguous paragraphs, different contex...

Dictating and checking of letters is a time consuming but essential part of the work of all Familial Cancer Services/Cancer Genetics units. 1. We contacted Familial Cancer Centres/Clinical Genetics units across Australia (17 in total) to ask about the use of unit standard letters and paragraphs for Familial Cancer patients in each service. 14 services provided data. Both Genetic Counsellors and...