Search results for "text structure"

Levels of comprehension of scientific prose: the role of text variables

1998

Abstract This research investigates the role played on shallow and deep levels of comprehension by textual changes that are aimed at: (a) improving the relationships within text ideas, and (b) producing better links between text ideas and the reader's knowledge. Four versions of a long physics passage were elaborated combining both kinds of textual changes. Four groups of tenth graders were each given one of the four versions. Different measures representative of these levels of comprehension were taken: getting main ideas, recall, and problem solving. The results indicated that: (a) main idea performance was affected by improving the relationships within text ideas, (b) both textual change…

The summarizing skills of Finnish engineering students

1999

Język ma znaczenie. Ramowanie komunikatu w narracji muzealnej

2021

The events that we witnessed in the summer of 2021 — downpours and floods in Germany, fires in Turkey, a heatwave in Canada, or the tornado in the Czech Republic — are examples of extreme phenomena that we cannot say do not concern us, because they are happening somewhere else or they affect someone else. The spatial distance that has so far separated us from the effects of climate change is narrowing. The article is an attempt to answer the ques-tion of how a museum can structure its message in order to engage the public in mitigation and adaptation activities to prevent climate change. Using the example of the Water Museum in London, I discuss the features of effective communication. Effe…