Rey writer only
The phrase text comprehension
is probably a little ambiguous. When I read the title I think of understanding a body of
language in print like a textbook. Do you share my
understanding or does it mean something entirely different for you?
Well let’s see how our discussion goes. Text messaging is an interesting phenomenon. In one sense you are limited in the number of characters that can be sent in a single text message, so many have developed different conventions and shortcuts (e.g., emojis, abbreviations, etc) to convey more information in a text (though I have started to notice that with most people having unlimited texting that they will just send multiple texts that individually have nowhere near the character limit). However, sometimes“comprehension” of such messages is affected.
Your chapter activity is to create an experiment (you DO NOT actually need to conduct the experiment, but can to really impress me) that tests some aspect of text comprehension using text messaging.
Please do not propose a replication of a previous study.The parameters for your experiment are wide open(except for the variable of Age–do NOT use AGE as a variable).The best experiments (as determined by me) will earn 2x the credit normally earned. That is, there may be extra credit available beyond a single student. So be creative, precise, and clear regarding your experiment and ensure your submission is well written.
In your experiment make sure you EXPLICITLY identify your IV(s) (and levels), DV(s)(probably some measure of comprehension), your hypothesis and most importantly what the pattern of results would look like given your hypothesis and WHY(based on the text comprehension
literature/theory/concepts) the results are predicted to look that way.
You will want to cite at least one study in support of your study
and discuss specifically HOW the study relates to YOUR study
.
Just stating that “A study by XXXX and YYYYY (2015) examined text comprehension and so did my study.” is not sufficient.The submission should be at least 1 page double spaced.
