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Theses and read times

Today there is a tendency to consider the final testing of the first degree as "just significant. "Well, they are not the old four-year degree thesis, which often meant a minimum of Letters two hundred pages of text and about a year of work in humanities computing in Pisa is expected that the 'developed degree" is long thirty-five thirty pages, and writing work and not take away more than two months.

In my experience, however, even the computers of college degree can come out many interesting things. Thirty pages are the equivalent of an article of considerable size , or chapter of a book, then if the arguments are many, the arguments can be integrated and made more complex work.

In practice, many of the arguments I have given in recent years, in addition their educational value, have also proved interesting in terms of content. A good part of the new data included in my next book on the web comes from this work (in addition to those produced by students of the courses, and my individual research). But now came the turn of the inquiries regarding the timing of reading, and early results are very interesting.

What are the terms of the question? In fact, the starting point is my experience of the reader. For a couple of years I began to read long texts on the iPhone. Decades of usability studies say that the on-screen reading is slower than on paper, on the iPhone, however, the difference seemed so small that mi è sembrato opportuno fare delle verifiche. Le più importanti misurazioni dei tempi di lettura risalgono infatti agli anni Ottanta, quando la tecnologia degli schermi era quella che era, e i fosfori verdi erano un vertice di usabilità. I progressi recenti, in fatto di schermi, sono notevolissimi... ma ben pochi ricercatori, apparentemente, hanno sentito il bisogno di controllare se le nuove tecnologie hanno qualche effetto sui tempi di lettura. Né finora erano state fatte prove con testi in italiano.

Adesso stanno arrivando i primi risultati delle ricerche che seguo, e le impressioni sembrano confermate: sullo schermo di un moderno notebook, o di un iPad, i lettori procedono quasi con la stessa velocità con cui procedono sulla print. Compared with the marked slowdown of 20-25% so far, we are at 3%. It is too early to consider the final results of the genre - but the argument progresses, and it may soon become necessary to change at different points in the manuals of writing!