Ebook: Computers and Writing: Issues and Implementations

This book grew out of the Fourth Conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. The conference brought together a wide variety of people interested in most aspects of computers and the writing process including, computers and writing education, computer supported fiction, computers and technical writing, evaluation of computer-based writing, and hypertext. Fifteen papers were selected from the twenty-five delivered at the conference. The authors were asked to develop them into articles, incorporating any insights they had gained from their conference presentations. This book offers a survey of the wide area of Computers and Writing, and describes current work in the design and use of computer-based tools for writing. University of Sussex M.S. October, 1991 Note from Publisher This collection of articles is being published simultaneously as a special issue, Volume 21(1-3), of Instructional Science - An International Journal of Learning and Cognition. Instructional Science 21: 1-4 (1992) 1 © Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Introduction MIKE SHARPLES School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BNl 9QH, United Kingdom.

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This book grew out of the Fourth conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations.
The book covers all aspects of computers and the writing process, including computer-based collaborative writing, hypertext, computers and writing education, computer and professional authors, evaluation of computer-based writing, computers and technical writing, and computer supported fiction.
The resulting collection provides an up-to-date cross-section of this increasingly important interdisciplinary topic -- with computer, cognitive and educational perspectives covered.
The book will be of interest to workers and researchers in language, cognition and computer science; especially those interested in hypermedia, human-computer interaction and cooperative technologies.

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This book grew out of the Fourth conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations.
The book covers all aspects of computers and the writing process, including computer-based collaborative writing, hypertext, computers and writing education, computer and professional authors, evaluation of computer-based writing, computers and technical writing, and computer supported fiction.
The resulting collection provides an up-to-date cross-section of this increasingly important interdisciplinary topic -- with computer, cognitive and educational perspectives covered.
The book will be of interest to workers and researchers in language, cognition and computer science; especially those interested in hypermedia, human-computer interaction and cooperative technologies.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Authors and Information Technology: New Challenges in Publishing....Pages 5-14
Collaborative Writing Practices and Writing Support Technologies....Pages 15-28
Two Failures in Computer-mediated Textcommunication....Pages 29-43
Conditions for Discovery through Writing....Pages 45-71
Problems in Achieving a Global Perspective of the Text in Computer-based Writing....Pages 73-84
Designing Minimal Computer Manuals from Scratch....Pages 85-98
Computer Support for the Development of Writing Abilities....Pages 99-108
Schoolchildren’s Revision Tactics....Pages 109-124
A Hypertext Open Learning System for Writers....Pages 125-138
Hypertext Adventures: Computer-assisted Teaching of Technical Report Writing in Delft....Pages 139-153
Cinewrite: an Algorithm-sketch for Writing Novels Cinematically, and two Mysteries Therein....Pages 155-168
Making Connections: the Logical Structuring of Hypertext Documents....Pages 169-181
Reviewing and Correcting Specifications....Pages 183-198
An Engineering Application for Hypertext....Pages 199-208
High Speed Text Input to Computer using Handwriting....Pages 209-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-224

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This book grew out of the Fourth conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations.
The book covers all aspects of computers and the writing process, including computer-based collaborative writing, hypertext, computers and writing education, computer and professional authors, evaluation of computer-based writing, computers and technical writing, and computer supported fiction.
The resulting collection provides an up-to-date cross-section of this increasingly important interdisciplinary topic -- with computer, cognitive and educational perspectives covered.
The book will be of interest to workers and researchers in language, cognition and computer science; especially those interested in hypermedia, human-computer interaction and cooperative technologies.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Authors and Information Technology: New Challenges in Publishing....Pages 5-14
Collaborative Writing Practices and Writing Support Technologies....Pages 15-28
Two Failures in Computer-mediated Textcommunication....Pages 29-43
Conditions for Discovery through Writing....Pages 45-71
Problems in Achieving a Global Perspective of the Text in Computer-based Writing....Pages 73-84
Designing Minimal Computer Manuals from Scratch....Pages 85-98
Computer Support for the Development of Writing Abilities....Pages 99-108
Schoolchildren’s Revision Tactics....Pages 109-124
A Hypertext Open Learning System for Writers....Pages 125-138
Hypertext Adventures: Computer-assisted Teaching of Technical Report Writing in Delft....Pages 139-153
Cinewrite: an Algorithm-sketch for Writing Novels Cinematically, and two Mysteries Therein....Pages 155-168
Making Connections: the Logical Structuring of Hypertext Documents....Pages 169-181
Reviewing and Correcting Specifications....Pages 183-198
An Engineering Application for Hypertext....Pages 199-208
High Speed Text Input to Computer using Handwriting....Pages 209-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-224
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