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Sentence Elaboration

Sentence Elaboration is a syntactic and rhetorical strategy within sentence-level writing that involves expanding a basic sentence through the addition of modifiers, subordinate clauses, or coordinate elements to enhance clarity, detail, and expressive precision.

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Aids to text comprehension

Richard E. Mayer · Educational Psychologist · 1984 · 312 citations

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IN VIVO LANGUAGE INTERVENTION: UNANTICIPATED GENERAL EFFECTS

Betty Hart, Todd R. Risley · Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis · 1980 · 226 citations · Full text

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Elaboration techniques that increase the meaningfulness of technical text: An experimental test of the learning strategy hypothesis.

Richard E. Mayer · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1980 · 183 citations

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Constraints on effective elaboration: Effects of precision and subject generation

Barry S. Stein, John D. Bransford · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1979 · 182 citations

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Updating during reading comprehension: Why causality matters.

Panayiota Kendeou, Emily R. Smith, Edward J. O’Brien · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 2012 · 155 citations

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Authors

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  1. RE
    Richard E. Mayer

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    4 publications · 521 citations

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    Barry S. Stein

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    3 publications · 294 citations

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  3. BJ
    Brian J. Lyman

    Monell Chemical Senses Center, United States

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  4. DS
    Danielle S. McNamara

    Arizona State University, United States

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  5. MA
    Mark A. McDaniel

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 33 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    820 citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    541 citations

  3. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    495 citations

  4. Western University

    London, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    156 citations

  6. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    34 citations

  7. Tufts University

    Medford, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    40 citations

  8. Neapolis University Pafos

    Paphos, Cyprus

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    155 citations

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  1. Journal of Educational Psychology

    4 publications · 247 citations

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  2. Memory & Cognition

    3 publications · 201 citations

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  3. The American Journal of Psychology

    AJP · 2 publications · 44 citations

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  4. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

    2 publications · 281 citations

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  5. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research

    JSHR · 2 publications · 61 citations

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