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Office occupations/word processing curriculum guide
… a new course outline for the Office Occupations/Word Processing course for high school and adult students. Specifically, the course outline will serve students who are at least 16 years old. The content of the course consists of interpersonal and communication skills, hardware/software …
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"Object Based Attention in Visual Word Processing"
This thesis focusses on whether words are treated like visual objects by the human attentional system. Previous research has shown an attentional phenomenon that is associated specifically with objects: this is known as “object based attention” (e.g. Egly, Driver & Rafal, 1994). This is where …
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Word processing and the minority basic writer
… would be affected by: (a) the use or non use of word processing/text editing, (b) their initial level of writing apprehension, (c) and their level of meaningful contact with members of the majority American community.
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Navigation in electronic space: Users' learning strategies of word processing.
… secretaries and support staff were given a word processing test to assess their level of proficiency. Out of this group, four novice and six advanced users were selected for non-directive interviewing. The study found that advanced and novice users shared very different thought worlds about …
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… accent in a sentence is placed on an unimportant word, then there may be inappropriate information transfer within the discourse, and misunderstandings. The concept of focus as part of the information structure of a language, the linguistic means used to express it, and the differential use of …
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Investigating the differing role of consonants and vowels in word processing
… between consonants and vowels in language processing, with consonants being more involved at the lexical level, and vowels serving as preferential cues for grammar and prosody. The privileged role of consonants during lexical access has been demonstrated in adults across numerous languages. …
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Emotion word processing: evidence from electrophysiology, eye movements and decision making
… of a textual stimulus influences its processing. Despite a wealth of research recently being conducted in the area, heterogeneity of stimuli used and methodologies utilized prevented general conclusion from being confidently drawn. This thesis aimed to clarify understanding of …
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The implementation of word processing in the Richmond, Virginia, metropolitan area
The purpose of this study was to determine how word processing is being utilized in businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond metropolitan area. No data are available about the current implementation of word processing in a major metropolitan area in Virginia. This study was …
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Transfer of Learning by Word Processing Students: An Analysis of Selected Factors
The purpose of this study was to determine if word processing can be taught conceptually so that students can decontextualize concepts from a specific program setting and thus achieve a greater level of both learning and far transfer. The conceptual abstracting instructional method, which used an …
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Rater's perception of handwriting legibility and word- processing in l2 writing assessment
… focuses on the issue of handwriting quality and word-processing as biasing factors in English as a Second Language testing, specifically the English as a Second Language Placement Test (EPT) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Four expert EPT raters rated a total of forty essays, …
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A survey of word processing centers in the urban corridor of Virginia
… the investigation was to determine the status of word processing centers within the Urban Corridor of Virginia. The problem was an identification of the factors in the word processing conversion process and of the typing and nontyping tasks performed and the employment tests administered in the …
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Development of a computer-assisted instructional program to teach word processing terminology
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Emotion Word Processing and Previous Exposure to Violent Media: An Eye-Tracking Study
… containing either a nonviolent, neutral critical word or a violent, negatively valenced critical word. Aspects of their reading behavior was examined to test the hypothesis that participants with higher exposure to violent media would significantly differ from participants with lower exposure to …
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A Study of Central Iowa High School Seniors' Computer Literacy and Word Processing Skills
… study was to determine the computer literacy and word processing skill level of central Iowa high school seniors. Computer literacy was defined as computer terminology, troubleshooting, and appropriate use of technology, legal and ethical issues in technology, and Internet research and evaluation. …
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An Investigation into How Word Learning Modality Influences Subsequent Word Processing During Sentence Reading
This dissertation executed a novel rare word learning paradigm to investigate whetherlearning words via different modalities (i.e., auditory vs. visual) influences subsequent word knowledge. The study was split across two days. On day one, adult participants learned the definitions or …
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The Effect of Hearing Impairment on Word Processing of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech
… how children with hearing loss (CHL) process words. The Emergent Coalition Model (ECM) of early word learning proposes that multiple cues (e.g., perceptual, social, linguistic) are used to facilitate word learning. Because hearing loss influences speech perception, different word learning …
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The effects of different methods of teaching word processing on achievement of adult learners
… Forty-five adult beginning word processing users (14 males, 31 females) participated in an experiment to learn word processing (WordPerfect (c) Version 5). Each student was randomly assigned into one of nine small classes (ranging four to six people for each). Five of the …
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Word Processing in the Office of the Future: Comparison of Forecasts of Businesspersons and Educators
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