Table 5 Manual analysis of revision logs (adapted from Stevenson et al. 2006)
From: Using keystroke logging to understand writers’ processes on a reading-into-writing test
Dimensions | Working definition |
|---|---|
Location | Indicating the place in the text where the change was made, either at the point of inscription or previous text. |
Level | Indicating whether the change took place at the levels of within a word, within a clause, within a sentence, across sentences or across paragraph. |
Aspects | |
Linguistic | A change relating to a linguistic feature. |
Grammar - a change to correct a grammatical mistake, e.g. tense, agreement, part of speech. | |
Spelling - A change to correct a spelling mistake. This paper does not distinguish between spelling mistakes and typing errors. However, most spelling occurrences below word level seem to be typing errors. | |
Punctuation - A change relating to elements such as hyphens, apostrophes, (de)capitalization, commas, semi-colons, full stop, question marks and exclamation marks. | |
Phrasing - A non-error change to substitute a word/phase/clause/sentence with an alternative relating to considerations such as style, tone, and cohesion without changing the meaning. | |
Content | A change which affects the meaning of the text. |
Mechanical | A change which cannot be categorised as Linguistic or Content. It usually concerns the format of the text. |
Action | Indicating whether the change was an addition, deletion or substitution |