Computers and Writing, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Issues and Implementations

This book grew out of the Fourth Conference on Computers and the Writing Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. The conference brought together a wide variety of people interested in most aspects of computers and the writing process including, computers and writing education, computer supported fiction, computers and technical writing, evaluation of computer-based writing, and hypertext. Fifteen papers were selected from the twenty-five delivered at the conference. The authors were asked to develop them into articles, incorporating any insights they had gained from their conference presentations. This book offers a survey of the wide area of Computers and Writing, and describes current work in the design and use of computer-based tools for writing. University of Sussex M.S. October, 1991 Note from Publisher This collection of articles is being published simultaneously as a special issue, Volume 21(1-3), of Instructional Science - An International Journal of Learning and Cognition. Instructional Science 21: 1-4 (1992) 1 © Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Introduction MIKE SHARPLES School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BNl 9QH, United Kingdom.

Authors and Information Technology: New Challenges in Publishing.- Collaborative Writing Practices and Writing Support Technologies.- Two Failures in Computer-Mediated Textcommunication.- Conditions for Discovery through Writing.- Problems in Achieving a Global Perspective of the Text in Computer-based Writing.- Designing Minimal Computer Manuals from Scratch.- Computer Support for the Development of Writing Abilities.- Schoolchildren’s Revision Tactics.- A Hypertext Open Learning System for Writers.- Hypertext Adventures: Computer-assisted Teaching of Technical Report Writing in Delft.- CINEWRITE: an Algorithm-sketch for Writing Novels Cinematically, and Two Mysteries Therein.- Making Connections: the Logical Structuring of Hypertext Documents.- Reviewing and Correcting Specifications.- An Engineering Application for Hypertext.- High Speed Text Input to Computer using Handwriting.- Contributors.