Computers and writing : state of the art

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Computers and writing : state of the art

edited by Patrik O'Brian Holt, Noel Williams

Intellect , Kluwer Academic, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780792318583

内容説明

Patrik O'Brian Holt Heriot-Watt University After speech, writing is the most common form of human communication and represents the cornerstone of our ability to preserve and record information. Writing, by its very definition, requires artifacts in the form of tools to write with and a medium to write on. Through history these artifacts have ranged from sticks and clay tablets, feather and leather, crude pens and paper, sophisticated pens and paper, typewriters and paper; and electronic devices with or without paper. The development of writing tools has straightforward objectives, to make writing easier and more effective and assist in distributing written communication fast and efficiently. Both the crudest and most sophisticated forms of writing tools act as mediators of human written communication for the purpose of producing, distributing and conserving written language. In the modern world the computer is arguably the most sophisticated form of mediation, the implications of which are not yet fully understood. The use of computers (a writing artifact which mediates communication) for the production and editing of text is almost as old as computers themselves. Early computers involved the use of crude text editors and a writer had to insert commands resembling a programming language to format and print a document. For example to underline a word the writer had to do the following, This is an example of how to .ul underline a single word. in order to produce: This is an example of how to underline a single word.

目次

1. New Technology. New Writing. New Problems?.- 2. Three Modes of Collaborative Authoring.- 3. Is There a Reader in this Labyrinth? Notes on Reading Afternoon.- 4. Narrative Computer Systems: The Dialectics of Emotion and Formalism.- 5. A Language-Sensitive Text Editor for Dutch.- 6. Boxweb: A Structured Outline Program for Writers.- 7. An Author’s Cross-referencer.- 8. Text to Hypertext and Back Again.- 9. Word Frequency Based Indexing and Authoring.- 10. Text Indexing: The Problem of Significance.- 11. Factors Affecting Organisational Acceptance of an Automated Writing Aid.- 12. Supporting Writing with an Undo Mechanism.- 13. Internationalisation: The Programmer, the User and the Writer.- 14. Controlled English (CE): From COGRAM to ALCOGRAM.- 15. Action Centred Manuals or Minimalist Instruction? Alternative Theories for Carroll’s Minimal Manuals.- 16. A Dictionary View of Technical Writing.- 17. Textbase Technology: Writing with Reusable Text.- 18. A Hypertext-Based Support Aid for Writing Software Documentation.- 19. An Automated Grammar and Style Checker for Writers of Simplified English.- 20. Ruskin to McRuskin - Degrees of Interaction.- 21. Representing Writing: External Representations and the Writing Process.- 22. The CONST-Project: Computer Instructed Writing Techniques.- 23. “IV Storybase”: Using Interactive Video to Develop Creative Writing Skills.- 24. Story Building with Computers: Effects on Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Attitude and Writing.
巻冊次

ISBN 9781871516203

内容説明

This book contains a set of papers taken from the 3rd International Conference on Computers and Writing, representing the most comprehensive survey of the application of computers to writing to date. Given that it has a broad range of topics, the book will appeal to a wide audience, including researchers, both academic and commercial, interested in theoretical and applied issues related to computers and writing. The relationship between computers and writing has, over the last few years, taken on a new significance. Not only do computers provide help in conventional writing tasks, they provide new ways of writing, through networking, electronic publishing, and hypertext. The machine may even begin to write itself. As well as researchers, the audience for this book includes teachers and trainees of writers and documenters, technical writers, primary and secondary school teachers. Indeed, anyone with an interest in writing and the writing process.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA19119512
  • ISBN
    • 187151620X
    • 0792318587
  • LCCN
    92018852
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Oxford,Dordrecht
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 387 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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