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Research Proposal Assignment Background and motivation Students vary in their handwriting style. Some may write legibly and some may write illegibly. While this may seem increasingly insignificant, especially in a modern world where handwriting is replaced by word-processing tools, students nonetheless have to complete handwritten essays. However, as handwriting style and legibility often imply the ease of processing, they may influence students’ grades in spite of the quality of their essays. Sheffield, in emphasising the importance of teaching children handwriting, reflects that handwriting may be used to judge a student’s intelligence or achievement (1996). Processing fluency, which refers to the ease of processing information determined …show more content…

The reason legibility is included in this research is to eliminate cases where beautiful words are presented with low legibility and vice versa. Participants are unware of the quality of the essay. For determining beauty, several keywords (e.g. Hong Kong history) which recur in all essays will be photocopied and shown to the participants. Note that they can only see the keywords at this stage, without access to the rest of the essay. The reason participants are not shown the entire essay is because legibility and content of essays may influence their judgments on beauty. They are also made aware what those words are so that they will only judge the beauty of handwriting without processing. Beauty will be determined on a 6-point scale as …show more content…

Essays whose handwriting have the most extreme values are then selected i.e. most beautiful handwriting and least legible handwriting, most beautiful handwriting and most legible handwriting, least beautiful handwriting and least legible handwriting, and least beautiful handwriting and most legible handwriting. This is to make sure each factor stands out from each other so that they are comparable. The reason a large amount of copies are needed is now clear: the handwriting must have extreme values; handwriting with most beautiful handwriting and moderately legible handwriting, for instance, cannot be selected. This mixed-factor design is presented in Table

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