Question 7.64

34. You wish to learn if students in an English course write better essays when they are required to use computer word-processing than when they write and revise their essays by hand. There are 120 students in an English course available as subjects.

  1. Outline the design of an experiment to determine whether word-processing results in better essays.
  2. What precautions would you take in completing this experiment that do not appear in your outline of the design?