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

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 NewWriting 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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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 NewWriting 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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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 NewWriting 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 5-6
Professional Writing Studied: Authors’ Accounts of Planning in Document Production Processes....Pages 7-24
Writing, Speaking, Drawing: the Distribution of Meaning in Architects’ Communication....Pages 25-42
Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government....Pages 43-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-56
Introduction....Pages 57-58
Computer Support for Producing Software Documentation: Some Possible Futures....Pages 59-72
Academic Writing and Information Retrieval....Pages 73-86
Professional Authorship in the Electronic World....Pages 87-95
Designs for New Writing Environments....Pages 97-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-120
Introduction....Pages 121-122
Two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing....Pages 123-145
Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing....Pages 147-168
User-oriented Index Design for Computer-based Documentation....Pages 169-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-180
Introduction....Pages 181-182
Spider Webs, Symphonies and the Yellow-Brick Road: Form and Structure in Electronic Texts....Pages 183-206
Knowledge Package Construction and Conceptual Navigation using a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS)....Pages 207-215
When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences....Pages 217-236
Citizens’ Networks: Examples of Utopian Uses of Computer-mediated Communication....Pages 237-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-274

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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 NewWriting 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 5-6
Professional Writing Studied: Authors’ Accounts of Planning in Document Production Processes....Pages 7-24
Writing, Speaking, Drawing: the Distribution of Meaning in Architects’ Communication....Pages 25-42
Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government....Pages 43-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-56
Introduction....Pages 57-58
Computer Support for Producing Software Documentation: Some Possible Futures....Pages 59-72
Academic Writing and Information Retrieval....Pages 73-86
Professional Authorship in the Electronic World....Pages 87-95
Designs for New Writing Environments....Pages 97-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-120
Introduction....Pages 121-122
Two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing....Pages 123-145
Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing....Pages 147-168
User-oriented Index Design for Computer-based Documentation....Pages 169-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-180
Introduction....Pages 181-182
Spider Webs, Symphonies and the Yellow-Brick Road: Form and Structure in Electronic Texts....Pages 183-206
Knowledge Package Construction and Conceptual Navigation using a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS)....Pages 207-215
When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences....Pages 217-236
Citizens’ Networks: Examples of Utopian Uses of Computer-mediated Communication....Pages 237-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-274
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