The New Writing Environment

1. Front Matter

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2. Writers at Work: Expanding the Notion of Writing

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Mike Sharples, Thea van der Geest

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   3. Professional Writing Studied: Authors’ Accounts of Planning in Document Production Processes

      • Thea van der Geest

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   4. Writing, Speaking, Drawing: the Distribution of Meaning in Architects’ Communication

      • Peter Medway

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   5. Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government

      • Niels P. van der Mast

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3. Writers at Work in a New Writing Environment

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Mike Sharples, Thea van der Geest

      Pages 57-58

   3. Computer Support for Producing Software Documentation: Some Possible Futures

      • Lyn Pemberton, Louise Gorman, Anthony Hartley, Richard Power

      Pages 59-72

   4. Academic Writing and Information Retrieval

      • Eva-Maria Jakobs, Dagmar A. Knorr

      Pages 73-86

   5. Professional Authorship in the Electronic World

      • Jane Dorner

      Pages 87-95

   6. Designs for New Writing Environments

      • Mike Sharples

      Pages 97-115

4. Designing and Developing the New Writing Environment

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Mike Sharples, Thea van der Geest

      Pages 121-122

   3. Two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing

      • Robert Dale, Shona Douglas

      Pages 123-145

   4. Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing

      • Angela Glover, Graeme Hirst

      Pages 147-168

   5. User-oriented Index Design for Computer-based Documentation

      • Agnes Kukulska-Hulme

      Pages 169-176

5. New Ways of Writing: Multimedia and Networks

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

      • Mike Sharples, Thea van der Geest

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   3. Spider Webs, Symphonies and the Yellow-Brick Road: Form and Structure in Electronic Texts

      • J. Randal Woodland

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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 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.

• Internet
• computer
• design
• documentation
• multimedia
• networks
• software

• School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

  Mike Sharples

• Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Thea Geest

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