title: Increasing fiction writers' productivity through an internet-based intervention.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 49008, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porritt
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burt
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poling
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014956:Writing