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Citation: 

Paxton, Richard J. “‘Someone with Like a Life Wrote It’: The Effects of a Visible Author on High School History Students.” Journal of Educational Psychology 89(2) (1997): 235-50. http://www.apa.org/journals/edu/

Abstract/Summary: 

The effects of an author, writing in the first person, on adolescents reading history textbooks were studied with six high school sophomores. Data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews show that students interacted with the "visible" author and engaged in mental conversations.

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