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The study argued that the quantity of information included in textbooks about given environments is an important variable affecting students' ability to picture places accurately and richly. The measurement of the emphasis devoted to places and regions was the major approach in the analysis. The implication of the findings is that greater balance be introduced among the areas of concern in geography in the Egyptian preparatory school in order to build an appropriate picture of the world and increase students' comprehension of the contemporary world.","(3) The considerateness of history textbooks. The problem of comprehension posed by the structure of text offers an important perspective for judging the quality of a textbook. Four aspects of text structures were used to evaluate the quality of the explanations of historical events in Egyptian textbooks. 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