Peer-reviewed research
Competition for Working Memory among Writing Processes
Ronald T. Kellogg, American Journal of Psychology, 2001
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- What it is
- A laboratory study in which college students wrote narrative, descriptive and persuasive texts, by longhand or on a word processor, while detecting auditory probes that asked which writing process they were engaged in: planning, translating ideas into sentences, or reviewing.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed and published in a major psychology journal. It is a laboratory study of college students, and it explains how writing processes share working memory. It does not compare dictation with typing. The abstract is read from the university repository.
Facts taken from this source
- Kellogg's 2001 experiments found that planning, translating ideas into sentences and reviewing compete for one general-purpose working memory resource.
“planning, translating, and reviewing processes in writing compete for a common, general-purpose resource of working memory” (Abstract)
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