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.
D000328:Adult; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D014796:Visual Perception; D014956:Writing