The New Writing Environment Writers at Work in a World of Technology
Başlık:
The New Writing Environment Writers at Work in a World of Technology
ISBN:
9781447114826
Edition:
1st ed. 1996.
Yayın Bilgileri:
London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
X, 278 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Contents:
Section 1 Writers at Work: Expanding the Notion of Writing -- Section 1: Contents -- Section 1: Introduction -- 1 Professional Writing Studied: Authors' Accounts of Planning in Document Production Processes -- 2 Writing, Speaking, Drawing: the Distribution of Meaning in Architects' Communication -- 3 Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government -- Section 2 Writers at Work in a New Writing Environment -- Section 2: Contents -- Section 2: Introduction -- 4 Computer Support for Producing Software Documentation: Some Possible Futures -- 5 Academic Writing and Information Retrieval -- 6 Professional Authorship in the Electronic World -- 7 Designs for New Writing Environments -- Section 3 Designing and Developing the New Writing Environment -- Section 3: Contents -- Section 3: Introduction -- 8 Two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing -- 9 Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing -- 10 User-oriented Index Design for Computer-based Documentation -- Section 4 New Ways of Writing: Multimedia and Networks -- Section 4: Contents -- Section 4: Introduction -- 11 Spider Webs, Symphonies and the Yellow-Brick Road: Form and Structure in Electronic Texts -- 12 Knowledge Package Construction and Conceptual Navigation using a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS) -- 13 When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences -- 14 Citizens' Networks: Examples of Utopian Uses of Computer-mediated Communication -- About the Authors -- Name Index.
Abstract:
Information technology is changing the way we write. Special features such as outliners, spelling checkers and graphic facilities have transformed word processors into document processors; document processors have, in turn, integrated with other electronic resources such as e-mail and the Internet to provide a complete writing environment. The New Writing Environment examines the knowledge that is needed in order to develop, use and evaluate computer-based writing environments. The emphasis is firmly on practical issues: tasks performed by writers at work, problems they encounter, and documents they actually produce. Writing is defined within a wide social and organisational context, in order to give an accurate assessment of how the new technology affects the social and cooperative aspects of authorship. The result is a wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the relationship between writing and computers.
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Dil:
English