Findings of the Project

1. Students who use a typewriter on a daily journaling activity and coupled with intensive spelling corrective activities tend to score higher on spelling assessments than students who complete the same intensive spelling corrective activities without a typewriter.

2. Most students feel that composing on a manual typewriter imparts their work with greater value.

3. Students enjoy using typewriters in a classroom setting.

4. Old technology can be highly interesting to adolescents.