I was showing my students how to
use EBSCO and used “typewriters” (of course) as a search topic. Among other
things, EBSCO came up with an article from the Nov. 2016 British Journal of
Psychology about a study testing “transcription fluency” (typing speed)
against essay-writing skills. According to the study, “decreased fluency
can actually benefit cognitive processing.” The poor typists showed better
“lexical sophistication,” sentence complexity, and essay cohesion than the
speedy ones.
It made for an interesting conversation
with a few students who insist on typing essays on their phones, with their
thumbs, and, as a two- to four-fingered typist, it made me feel somewhat better
about myself.
I hesitate to share this with my writing group, as there's a woman there who's unbelievably fast.
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