Tja … vad ska vi välja – penna eller tangentbord? : En jämförande studie av årskurs 6-elever när de skriver berättande texter för hand eller på dator

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are differences between students' narrative texts written by hand or with an iPad (with keyboard). This comparative study analyzes 54 narrative texts written by students in grade 6. The method of analysis is a combination of a qualitative text analysis model with a quantitative content analysis of the texts, with different measurable variables. The text analysis model systematizes the content of the texts in the categories content, structure and linguistic features, and writing rules. The quantitative analysis is based on measurable variables within the framework of the categories and these are text length, word class distribution, nominal quota, paragraph classification, word length and word variation, readability index, misspellings and spelling and verbal words. The quantitative study has been processed statistically with Swegram. The results show that there are differences in the student grades written by hand and digitally in all three categories. The digital texts are longer, contain more descriptive descriptions, a clearer structure, a more varied language and less spelling errors. But the entirety of the digital texts is not exceptional. Students use a more complicated writing style, vary their language and use more difficult words. However, many students do not have the knowledge, skills or the technical writing ability to compose a clarity of communicate the content in the text. Writing digitally has great advantages over handwriting, but there are also disadvantages.