Interrupting Visual Feedback in Writing

To test the effects of interrupting visual feedback on writing, two groups of subjects—9 experienced and 9 inexperienced writers—were prevented from re-reading as they produced written texts. Their texts were then analyzed for error, syntax, over-all quality, and sentence connectedness. While both groups of writers were able to produce relatively well-formed sentences when they could not re-read, both were nonetheless hindered at the level of discourse production. Each group, however, reacted to that hinderance with different linguistic strategies.

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