Research Catalog

Title

Narrative comprehension, causality, and coherence : essays in honor of Tom Trabasso / edited by Susan R. Goldman, Arthur C. Graesser, Paul van den Broek.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Goldman, Susan R.
• Graesser, Arthur C.
• Broek, Paulus Willem van den, 1955-

Description

vi, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of essays includes: reflections; comprehension and memory for texts; situation models and concepts in story comprehension; dimensions of narrative comprehension; children's understanding of complex stories; and content integration and source separation in learning from many texts.

Subject

• Trabasso, Tom
• Trabasso, Tom
• Discourse analysis > Psychological aspects
• Causation
• Causality
• Taalwetenschap
• Tekstbegrip
• Analyse du discours narratif > Aspect psychologique
• Analyse du discours > Aspect psychologique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Essays in honor of Tom Trabasso / Susan R. Goldman, Arthur C. Graesser, and Paul van den Broek -- Reflections on a mentor, colleague, and friend / Joseph P. Magliano and Paul van den Broek -- Comprehension and memory for texts: three generations of reading research / Paul van den Broek and Mary Gustafson -- Text comprehension: a view from the bottom up / Edward J. O'Brien and Jerome L. Myers -- Revealing inference processes during text comprehension / Joseph P. Magliano -- Situation models and concepts in story comprehension / Arthur C. Graesser and Katja Wiemer-Hastings -- Five dimensions of narrative comprehension: the event-indexing model / Rolf A. Zwaan -- Goals as generators of activation in narrative understanding / Gordon H. Bower and Mike Rinck -- Children's understanding of complex stories: issues of representation and assessment / Susan R. Goldman, Keisha O'Banion Varma, Diana Sharp, and the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt -- On narrative reading-writing relationships: how young readers construe the reader's need for inferences / Pietro Boscolo and Lerida Cisotto -- Detecting causal inconsistencies in scientific text / Murray Singer and Nathalie Gagnon -- Comprehension of mathematical proofs / Charles R. Fletcher, Sarah Lucas, and Corrine M. Baron -- Content integration and source separation in learning from multiple texts / M. Anne Britt, Charles A. Perfetti, Rebecca Sandak, and Jean-François Rouet -- On the use of narrative as argument / James F. Voss, Jennifer Wiley, and Rebecca Sandak -- The dandelion war / Hildy Ross, Michael Ross, Anne Wilson, and Melissa Smith -- Predicting psychological well-being from beliefs and goal appraisal processes during the experience of emotional events / Nancy L. Stein, Rachael A. Sheldrick, and Sara C. Broaders.

ISBN

• 0805833587
• 9780805833584

LCCN

99019376

OCLC

• ocm41039788
• 41039788
• SCSB-865348

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library