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Direct linkFigueredo, Lauren; Varnhagen, Connie K. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Spelling and grammar checkers help to make surface errors more apparent; do they influence the way in which people revise the content of their writing? We investigated whether the presence of checkers distracts students from making content revisions. Twenty-five freshmen, 20 English majors and 20 graduate students revised two essays on a computer,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Spelling, Computer Software
