The Computer, the Writer and the Learner

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Computer and the Writer

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 1-14

3. Researching Writing and Writers’ Needs

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 15-27

4. Models of Writing

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 29-44

5. Software to Support Writing

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 45-79

6. Designing Software to Support Writing: A Case Study

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 81-107

7. Building a Computerised Writing Class

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 109-133

8. Teaching Writing by Machine

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 135-156

9. New Ways of Writing : Hypertext

   • Noel Williams

   Pages 157-170

10. Networks and Collaboration

    • Noel Williams

    Pages 171-187

11. Desktop Publishing

    • Noel Williams

    Pages 189-198

12. The Writer and the Computer

    • Noel Williams

    Pages 199-218

13. Back Matter

    Pages 219-235

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Computers are gradually infiltrating all stages of the writing process. Increasingly, teachers, writers, students, software developers, technical authors, and computer scientists need to learn more about the effective use of computers for writing. This book discusses how computers can help support writing. It explores the issues associated with using computers to train and help writers, concentrating on computational and user aspects and reviewing practical, economic and institutional issues. Noel Williams balances theoretical and practical concerns, to meet the needs of researchers and practising trainers of writing. There is also a brief evaluation available software products, together with advice about the major considerations and pitfalls of working on custom-made software. The book is based on five years of research by the Communication and Information Research Group (CIRG) at Sheffield City Polytechnic into the value of computer-based approaches to training and helping writers. The work was funded and supported by the Training Agency, IBM, AT&T, Rolls Royce, NAB and GEC. The Computer, the Writer and the Learner is for people who are using, or are thinking of using, computers to teach or support writing, and for designers of computer-based writing systems. Many such people are unaware of the nature and use of existing systems, and of the possibilities they offer. Developers often lack detailed knowledge of other projects and of the range of users' needs. Although the bias of the book is towards the teacher, trainer and student, most of the content deals with issues that developers will want to know about.

• Cognitive Science
• Designer
• Hypertext
• LibreOffice Writer
• OpenOffice Writer
• Softwareentwicklung
• Text Processing
• Textverarbeitung
• Textverarbeitung/Unterrichtsmaterial
• computer
• design
• development
• knowledge
• networks
• software

• Communication and Information Research Group, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield, UK

  Noel Williams

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