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Table 7 Measures of pauses

From: Using keystroke logging to understand writers’ processes on a reading-into-writing test

Measures

Ben

Mary

N

%

Mean length (in seconds)

SD

N

%

Mean length (in seconds)

SD

Total pauses (excluding the initial conceptualisation and reading phase)

50

100

4.10

 

152

100

5.65

 

Within words

8

16

3.04

0.49

37

24.34

7.71

5.10

Between words or clauses

41

82

4.31

2.86

99

65.13

5.56

2.97

Between sentences

1

2

3.12

15

9.87

3.93

0.57

Between paragraphs

1

0.66

3.28

 

Total

204.95

 

Total

858.22