This is in line with expectations, given that home computer use, according to the displacement hypothesis, should affect skills in reading continuous text, rather than finding factual information in non-continuous texts such as graphs, maps, lists or sets of instructions, i.e., the text type that shares many similarities with how information often is presented at the computer screen.
And the ease of searching digital information may be more appealing to dental students, who often use their textbooks as references to be read in short chunks instead of as continuous text, chapter by chapter.
He lists the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees as continuous text at one point.
Transformational grammar was initiated by Zellig S. Harris in the course of work on what he called discourse analysis (the formal analysis of the structure of continuous text).
Two or three paragraphs of continuous text give a broad overview of the period with further political, social and cultural details provided in the many captions that accompany the full-bleed illustrations.
This is done sometimes in the form of a continuous text, other times in the form of marginal notations to the main text.
An error recognition task was designed which consisted of four versions of a continuous text in which the same spelling errors were implanted.
Many people incapable of or uninterested in reading continuous texts pertaining to science and literature nonetheless read menus, catalogs, letters, labels, warnings, invoices, and a range of other materials of relevance and interest to them.
Also, in many cases the edges of the lines are missing, so we don't know what is continuous text".
The three lines of Fragment 1, which probably began the book, and the half line in Fragment 2 are the only continuous texts of Alcmaeon.
There are no literary texts and hardly any continuous texts (only a small number of complete sentences exist); the tablets contain accounts of the great Mycenaean palaces and their dependencies, written in the Greek language, in a very concise style.
