1st Edition
The Skills of Document Use From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning
By Jean-Francois Rouet
Copyright 2006
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the cognitive skills involved in reading, comprehending, and making use of complex documents. Understanding such skills is important at times when printed and online information systems are being used more and more... Read more
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. The Psychology of Text Comprehension: Current Theories and Issues. The Role of Text Organizers in Expert Comprehension. Comprehending Multiple Documents. Question Answering and Document Search. Using Hypertext Systems. Learning From Multiple Online Sources of Information. General Conclusions.
Biography
Jean-Francois Rouet
"...the book's treatment of complex documents includes a great deal of new research and a very rich context of functional literacy, technology, and education. It uniquely defines a new area of research, demonstrates its agenda, and provides some of the research answers to questions about the use of complex documents."
—Charles Perfetti
From the Foreword, University of Pittsburgh
