Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2023

Required Templates: An Assemblage Theory Analysis of How Template Character Limits Influence the Writing of DIY Online Grant Proposals

John R. Gallagher ; Anna Wysocka University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ; Steven Holmes Texas Tech University

Abstract

Identifying the effects of online templates, such as empty state pages (ESPs), sheds light on the user writing habits and best practices for user design. By using assemblage theory and extending previous studies of ESPs to grant proposal writing on the crowded-funded website Experiment.com, this large-scale study (n = 778) finds that required fields are more likely to be filled to the character limit than optional fields.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2023-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2021.2019318
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