Increasing fiction writers' productivity through an internet-based intervention.
Ten participants from an online community of fiction writers were exposed to a treatment package intended to increase their writing productivity. The package consisted of graphic feedback provided through a Web page, praise for goal completion delivered via e-mail, and editing of manuscripts by other members of the community dependent on the completion of word-count goals. A multiple baseline design across groups was used to evaluate the effects of the intervention, which was successful in increasing the number of words written.
Porritt
Matthew
M
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 49008, USA.
Burt
Andrew
A
Poling
Alan
A
D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014956:Writing