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Effects of disfluency in writing
Author(s) -
Medimorec Srdan,
Risko Evan F.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/bjop.12177
Subject(s) - fluency , psychology , sophistication , sentence , transcription (linguistics) , cognitive psychology , cognition , cohesion (chemistry) , linguistics , mathematics education , neuroscience , social science , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , sociology
While much previous research has suggested that decreased transcription fluency has a detrimental effect on writing, there is recent evidence that decreased fluency can actually benefit cognitive processing. Across a series of experiments, we manipulated transcription fluency of ostensibly skilled typewriters by asking them to type essays in two conditions: both‐handed and one‐handed typewriting. We used the Coh‐Metrix text analyser to investigate the effects of decreased transcription fluency on various aspects of essay writing, such as lexical sophistication, sentence complexity, and cohesion of essays (important indicators of successful writing). We demonstrate that decreased fluency can benefit certain aspects of writing and discuss potential mechanisms underlying disfluency effects in essay writing.