The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion. To this end, we present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats. We provide corrective inf...

Academic writing or expository is different in many ways than narrative descriptive essays. While the latter retells writers’ experience and observations, former requires writers to think plan before they can begin writing. This because no longer depends on their memory. They soon discover essay not merely transferring from oral thoughts written thoughts. cannot just retell what already know ha...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

Introduction: Successful language comprehension in elementary school is a key predictor of long-term educational outcomes, and requires adequate skill in both narrative and expository genres (e.g. stories versus science/history material). Historically, expository comprehension has received lower attention in the classroom, resulting in a performance gap between expository and narrative in grade...

Researchers have shown that skilled readers use variety of strategies to comprehend written texts (Stanovich, 2000; Sweet & Snow, 2003). Hence many readers are not aware of reading strategies; there is a need of explicit teaching instruction to develop those strategies. In fact, in most English reading classes there is absence of teaching comprehension strategies to readers, the strategy usuall...

This comprehensive review of literature includes research studies dating from 1980 to 2005 on expository text structure awareness as well as studies on the effectiveness of expository text structure instruction. The purpose of this literature review is two-fold: 1) To determine the extent to which students’ expository text structure awareness facilitates reading comprehension; and 2) Whether it...