Comparing Planning Processes in Smartphone Text Messaging to Traditional Writing
Gullberg, Kajsa LU
(2022)
SIG Writing 2022
- Abstract
- In today’s increasingly digital society, smartphone texting is a common means for written communication. In 2018, over 90% of Swedes reported that they engaged in smartphone text messaging (i.e. texting) on a daily basis (Davidsson, Palm, & Melin Mandre, 2018). The aim of this study is to examine and compare planning processes based on the Hayes (1996) writing model in texting with traditional writing through an experimental study. In the study, 13 dyads engaged in smartphone texting with a friend which was screen recorded and they also wrote a more traditional, individual text using keystroke logging. The planning processes were examined through pause analysis and the results showed that the planning units in texting was significantly... (More)
- In today’s increasingly digital society, smartphone texting is a common means for written communication. In 2018, over 90% of Swedes reported that they engaged in smartphone text messaging (i.e. texting) on a daily basis (Davidsson, Palm, & Melin Mandre, 2018). The aim of this study is to examine and compare planning processes based on the Hayes (1996) writing model in texting with traditional writing through an experimental study. In the study, 13 dyads engaged in smartphone texting with a friend which was screen recorded and they also wrote a more traditional, individual text using keystroke logging. The planning processes were examined through pause analysis and the results showed that the planning units in texting was significantly shorter than in writing. Further, the pause analyses also showed that pauses during texting were often located at syntactic boundaries – just as in writing. However, in writing, there was a significantly larger proportion of pauses following an incomplete phrase as compared to texting. Further, pauses following revisions were common in both texting and writing, however, the proportion of pauses following a revision were significantly larger in writing as compared to texting. To conclude, there were similarities between the planning processes but more effort was spent on revision when writing. Further, since most pauses were located at syntactic boundaries, this indicates that both in texting and traditional writing, syntactic units are important for the planning processes. (Less)
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- Gullberg, Kajsa
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- 2022-06
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- Contribution to conference
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- keywords
- keystroke logging, Writing process, Speaking
- conference name
- SIG Writing 2022
- conference location
- Umeå, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2022-06-20 - 2022-06-22
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- English
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abstract = {{In today’s increasingly digital society, smartphone texting is a common means for written communication. In 2018, over 90% of Swedes reported that they engaged in smartphone text messaging (i.e. texting) on a daily basis (Davidsson, Palm, & Melin Mandre, 2018). The aim of this study is to examine and compare planning processes based on the Hayes (1996) writing model in texting with traditional writing through an experimental study. In the study, 13 dyads engaged in smartphone texting with a friend which was screen recorded and they also wrote a more traditional, individual text using keystroke logging. The planning processes were examined through pause analysis and the results showed that the planning units in texting was significantly shorter than in writing. Further, the pause analyses also showed that pauses during texting were often located at syntactic boundaries – just as in writing. However, in writing, there was a significantly larger proportion of pauses following an incomplete phrase as compared to texting. Further, pauses following revisions were common in both texting and writing, however, the proportion of pauses following a revision were significantly larger in writing as compared to texting. To conclude, there were similarities between the planning processes but more effort was spent on revision when writing. Further, since most pauses were located at syntactic boundaries, this indicates that both in texting and traditional writing, syntactic units are important for the planning processes.}},
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language = {{eng}},
title = {{Comparing Planning Processes in Smartphone Text Messaging to Traditional Writing}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/154334769/KajsaGullberg_poster_SIGWriting.pdf}},
year = {{2022}},
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