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The New Writing Environment

Writers at Work in a World of Technology

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Mike Sharples

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

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  2. Thea Geest

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

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  3. Writers at Work in a New Writing Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-56
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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

      Pages 117-120
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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

      Pages 177-180
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    2. Introduction

      • Mike Sharples, Thea van der Geest
      Pages 181-182

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

      • J. Randal Woodland
      Pages 183-206
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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