Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks
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A very readable selection of articles by Kirsch and Mosenthal can be found in back issues of the Journal of Reading. Back issues should be available at many libraries.

Document Strategies - Journal of Reading
Profiling Students’ Quantitative Literacy Abilities. v36 n8 p668-74 May 1993.
Profiling Students’ Document Strategy Abilities. v36 n7p578-83 Apr 1993. 1993
Strategies for Solving Math Document Problems. v36 n6 p498-501 Mar 1993.
Generate Strategies: Coping without Cues and Clues. v36 n5 p416-19 Feb 1993.
Integration Strategies: Higher Order Thinking. v36 n4 p322-27 Dec-Jan 1992-93.
Cycle Strategies in Document Search. v36 n3 p238-42 Nov 1992.
How to Navigate a Document Using Known/Need-to-Know Strategies. v36 n2 pl40-44 Oct 1992.
Types of Document Knowledge: From Structures to Strategies . v36 nl p64-67 Sep 1992.

Learning from Exposition - Journal of Reading
Using Knowledge Modeling for Assessing Students’ Knowledge. v35 n8 p668-78 May 1992.
Knowledge Acquisition from a Knowledge Model Perspective. v35 n7 p588-96 Apr 1992.
Understanding Process Knowledge Models. v35 n6 p490-97 Mar 1992.
Understanding Knowledge Models of Simple Events. v35 n5 p408-15 Feb 1992.
Understanding Cases & Classes through Knowledge Modeling. v35 n4 p332-38 Dec-Jan 91-92.
Using Knowledge Models to Understand Steady States. v35 n3 p250-55 Nov 1991.
Understanding Definitions, Descriptions, and Comparison/Contrasts. v35 n2 pl56-60 Oct 1991. Extending Prose Comprehension through Knowledge Modeling. v35 n1 p58-61 Sep 1991.

Understanding Documents - Journal of Reading
Information Types in Nonmimetic Documents. v34 n8 p654-60 May 1991.
Understanding Mimetic Documents through “Knowledge Modeling.” v34 n7 p552-58 Apr 1991.
More Mimetic Documents: Procedural Schematics. v34 n6 p486-90 Mar 1991.
Mimetic Documents: Process Schematics. v34 n5 p390-97 Feb 1991.
Mimetic Documents: Diagrams. v34 n4 p290-94 Dec-Jan 1990-91.
Mimetic Documents: Pictures. v34 n3 p216-20 Nov 1990.
Understanding Thematic Maps. v34 n2 pl36-40 Oct 1990.
Understanding General Reference Maps. v34 nl p60-63 Sep 1990.

Understanding Forms, Part II. v33 n8 p636-41 May 1990.
Understanding Forms, Part 1. v33 n7 p542-45 Apr 1990.
Understanding Graphs and Charts, Part II. v33 n6 p454-57 Mar 1990.
Understanding Graphs and Charts, Part 1. v33 n5 p371-73 Feb 1990.
Nested Lists. v33 n4 p294-97 Jan 1990. Intersecting Lists. v33 n3 p210-13 Dec 1989.
Building Documents by Combining Simple Lists. v33 n2 pl32-35 Nov 1989.
Lists: The Building Blocks of Documents. v33 nl p58-60 Oct 1989.

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