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ABSTRACT
Identifying the effects of online templates, such as empty state pages (ESPs), sheds light on the user writing habits and best practices for user design. By using assemblage theory and extending previous studies of ESPs to grant proposal writing on the crowded-funded website Experiment.com, this large-scale study (n = 778) finds that required fields are more likely to be filled to the character limit than optional fields.
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Notes
1. According to our correspondence with the web developers at Experiment.com, unsuccessful proposals are taken down.
2. We accounted for the multiple tests through a Benjamini-Hochberg procedure to reduce false positives.
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Anna Wysocka
John R. Gallagher is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He studies interfaces, digital rhetoric, participatory audiences, and technical communication. He has been published in Computers and Composition, enculturation, Rhetoric Review, Transformations, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Written Communication. His monograph, Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing, is available from Utah State University Press. He also co-edited a 77-chapter collection with Danielle Nicole DeVoss titled Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, available from Utah State University Press.
Anna Wysocka studied Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, while also pursuing an interest and minor in informatics. She currently works in the data analytics space.