The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology

by Mike Sharples (Editor), Thea van der Geest (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540760115
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	07/30/1996
Edition description:	1st Edition.
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of 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.