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Rubens, Philip – Technical Communication, 1991
Compares the time required to perform four tasks on the basis of information gleaned from a traditional manual and from a hypertext version of the same manual. Finds that searches in the paper document were significantly faster than those in hypertext. Suggests that direct importation of existing word-processing files into hypertext format is not…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension