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Nancy Marshall, Marvin D. Glock, Comprehension of Connected Discourse: A Study into the Relationships between the Structure of Text and Information Recalled, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1978 - 1979), pp. 10-56
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