This study examined the use of bullets in textual web content. Thirty-six undergraduate and graduate college-age participants completed nine information search tasks in one of three text formats (standard paragraph form, bulleted sentences, or bulleted phrases). Overall, participants were able to find information significantly more quickly in the true bulleted format; otherwise, there were no statistical differences found between conditions for measures of success, difficulty or satisfaction.
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