Ease of annotation in proof-reading tasks

Wright, Patricia; Lickorish, Ann

doi:10.1080/01449298408901750

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“…A number of researchers have investigated the effects of scrolling versus paging in the comprehension and retention of material (see, e.g., Schwartz, Beldie and Pastoor, 1983); the differences in anaphoric resolution, (that is, the ability of readers to make recursive switches to preceeding text material), and its effects on retrieval and reader recollection, (see, e.g., Muter, Latremouille, Treurniet and Beam, 1982;Muter and Maurutto, 1991;Wright, 1987;Lovelace and Southall, 1983); and finally, the lack of portability (that is the ability to carry the medium around in physical space like a book) and annotation capabilities in this medium (that is the ability to directly label and mark texts) (see, e.g., Wright and Lickorish, 1984). What is fascinating is that even on this list, a number of idiosyncratic conventions such as the use of capital letters, and asterisks bounding a word serve to annotate texts for readers.…”

Section: Structural Features Of Electronic Discoursementioning

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Linguistic Power in Virtual Communities: the Ebonics Debate on the Internet

Pandey

2000

World Englishes

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The recent controversy over the issue of Ebonics has been well documented in both the print media and in the electronic media, in particular, on the internet. The impact of electronic discourse has been the focus of a number of researchers (Birkerts, 1998;Lakoff, 1998;Vitanza, 1999). However, the locus of research of most theorists has been on the metalanguage of this discourse genre, and on its role in the creation of unique discourse communities (Foertsch, 1995;Hawisher and Moran, 1993). Few studies have examined the extent to which this medium functions to create and sustain group ideologies. This study presents a content analysis of the electronic debate on Ebonics that spanned over eighteen months, drawing scholars from all over the world, and culminating in over seventy individual postings on an electronic bulletin board. What this study demonstrates is that in contesting issues, using the national social debate on Ebonics, linguists seek to assert their power as a group by excluding and marginalizing those parties that do not belong. The data analysis illustrates the linguistic devices through which such othering is constructed and maintained. The resultant electronic debate while overtly framed about Ebonics, covertly functions to assert the status of linguists as a group.

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Section: Structural Features Of Electronic Discoursementioning

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Linguistic Power in Virtual Communities: the Ebonics Debate on the Internet

Pandey

2000

World Englishes

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“…VDUs typically display text with reduced ascenders and descenders, thereby making discrimination of word shape more difficult. In a follow-up paper, Wright and Lickorish (1984) varied the procedures used for annotation of the text, using a similar design to that of their first experiment. The aim of this study was to determine whether the method of annotation was a contributing factor in proof-reading speed.…”

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Proof-reading on VDUs

Creed

Dennis

Newstead

1987

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Two experiments are reported which compared proof-reading performance across three different modes of presentation. The results of Experiment I indicated that proof-reading accuracy was significantly worse on a VDU than on paper, with a photograph of the VDU display producing intermediate performance. It was also demonstrated that substitutions of visually similar errors were harder to detect than other error types. The results of Experiment 2 replicated these findings, but failed to find any difference between twin-column and single-column presentation. The findings are interpreted as indicating that character font may be a major factor in the poor performance with the VDU. It is suggested that the present experimental paradigm could be a useful assessment tool for the evaluation of display design.

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