Not seeing is relieving: Invisible writing with computers

Stephen Marcus; Sheridan Blau

doi:10.1109/tpc.1984.6448797

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jun 1984

Not seeing is relieving: Invisible writing with computers

Stephen Marcus University of California, Santa Barbara ; Sheridan Blau University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

Word processors with adjustable video screens are used to test students' writing facility with and without visual feedback. Lack of visual feedback seems to have a salutory effect in forcing concentration onto emerging thoughts rather than words and sentences. It also prevents interrupting the train of thought to edit and correct every few sentences. `Local editing' is regarded as counterproductive because it deals with individual words and lines instead of reconceptualization and reorganization. For some students, however, the lack of feedback per se was disturbing and thought-disrupting.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published: 1984-06-01
DOI: 10.1109/tpc.1984.6448797
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Topics: digital rhetoric
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