Cognitive Correlates of Explanatory Writing Skill: An Analysis of Individual Differences
作者： KATHERINE E. ROWAN
DOI: 10.1177/0741088390007003002
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摘要: Explaining difficult ideas to lay readers is an important and frequently needed writing skill. When explaining, writers must recognize overcome the confusions that may experience in learning abstract concepts. To date, there has been little study of this demanding Consequently, article identifies a particular class explanatory discourse proposes working hypotheses about types knowledge likely be associated with skill genre. These are explored through individual differences among 169 college students. The results showed variations accuracy adaptiveness students' explanations were partially accounted for by measures topic knowledge, social cognition, knowledge. A index correlated Cognitive complexity, measure was adaptivene...
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