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A number of years ago I read that highlighting is better than underlining because usability studies had shown that the eye is drawn more to the "underline" than to the word above it. This does not happen with highlighting.
I then observed for some time what my eyes did, whenever I saw underlined text, and indeed the first thing my eyes were drawn to, was the underline but not the word above. Hence, as far as I am concerned, teaching underlining is doing your students AND any serious scholar a disservice.
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