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Weiss, Timothy – Technical Communication, 1988
Reports that professional writing students using computers wrote significantly better papers than their counterparts in traditional classrooms. Attributes the success of this study (other studies have failed to find significant differences) to the population of skilled, motivated, upper-level students and consistent use of computers from planning…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Word Processing, Writing (Composition)

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