- Emphasize text topics and their relations, thus readers can construct a coherent representation of a text's topic structure
- Prompt the reader to pause, process the shift, and then pull up an appropriate schema

Organizational Signals: Functions 


Organizational signals are writing devices, such as headings or summaries, that emphasize a text's topics and structure without adding new semantic content.

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Signaling or Cueing principle is used to explain the impact of headings on reading comprehension.
- Signaling can be of two type: Textual signaling and Graphical
-Textual signaling can have five subgroups 
 - organizational signals (e.g., headings or summaries), 
 -colors (e.g., font colors), 
- text-picture references (e.g., “see the picture”), 
- intonation (e.g., in auditory texts), 
- a mixture of types (e.g., coloring and text-picture referencing)."

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