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Through the eyes of my reader: a strategy for improving audience perspective in children's descriptive writing.
From:
Journal of Research in Childhood Education
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June 22, 2004| Author:
Holliway, David R.
| COPYRIGHT 2004 Association for Childhood Education International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Abstract. The findings in the study suggest "reading-as-the-reader" can improve 5th- and 9th-grade writers" ability to compose descriptive writing consistent with their readers" informational needs. Participants included: 154 writers (78 fifth-graders and 76 ninth-graders) and 52 ninth-grade readers. The study adapted the referential communication design from Traxler and Gernsbacher (1992, 1993) to investigate whether young writers can benefit from a specific perspective-taking con...
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