Computers and Writing: State of the Art

ISBN-13: 9789401052672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 387 str.

Patrik O'Brian Holt; Noel Williams

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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 itself may even begin to write. This book contains a carefully selected set of papers derived from the Third International Conference on Computers and Writing; representing a comprehensive survey of computers and writing. The range of topics covered includes: The design of software for writers; Teaching and training writers by computer; Cognitive assessment of writing; Uses of hypertext in writing; Interactive fiction; Story generation; Computer-based discourse modelling; Computers and technical writing; Evaluation of writing software and computer-based writing programmes. Given such a broad range of topics, the book will appeal to a wide audience including researchers, both academic, commercial and technical, interested in theoretical and applied issues related to computers and writing, teachers and trainers of writers, documenters, tecnical writers and educationalists generally. Indeed, anyone with an interest in writing and writing processes.

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Preface; P. O'Brian Holt. 1. New Technology, New Writing, New Problems? N. Williams. 2. Three Modes of Collaborative Authoring; J. Newman, R. Newman. 3. Is There a Reader in this Labyrinth? Notes on Reading Afternoon; J. Yellowlees Douglas. 4. Narrative Computer Systems: The Dialectics of Emotion and Formalism; P. Bøgh Andersen, B. Holmqvist. 5. A Language-Sensitive Text Editor for Dutch; G. Kempen, T. Vosse. 6. Boxweb: A Structured Outline Program for Writers; P. Wayner. 7. An Author's Cross-Referencer; H. Thimbleby. 8. Text to Hypertext and Back Again; C. Ghaoui, S.M. George, R. Rada, M. Beer, J. Getta. 9. Word Frequency Based Indexing and Authoring; M. Mhashi, R. Rada, H. Mili, Geeng-Neng You, A. Zeb, A. Michailidis. 10. Text Indexing: The Problem of Significance; C. Korycinski, A.F. Newell. 11. Factors Affecting Organisational Acceptance of an Automated Writing Aid; A.E. Winterbauer. 12. Supporting Writing with an Undo Mechanism; Yiya Yang. 13. Internationalisation: The Programer, the User and the Writer; L.F. Marshall. 14. Controlled English (CE): From COGRAM to ALCOGRAM; D. Schreurs, G. Adriaens. 15. Action Centred Manuals or Minimalist Instruction? Alternative Theories for Carroll's Minimal Manuals; S.W. Draper, K. Oatley. 16. A Dictionary View of Technical Writing; A. Kukulska-Hulme. 17. Textbase Technology: Writing with Reusable Text; R.A. Buchanan. 18. A Hypertext-Based Support Aid for Writing Software Documentation; G.Born. 19. An Automated Grammar and Style Checker for Writers of Simplified English; J.E. Hoard, R. Wojcik, K. Holzhauser. 20. Ruskin to McRuskin -- Degrees of Interaction; S. McGowan. 21. Representing Writing: External Representations and the Writing Process; M. Sharples, L. Pemberton. 22. The CONST-Project: Computer Instructed Writing Techniques; J. Beeken, G. Geerts, W. van Belle. 23. `IV Storybase': Using Interactive Video to Develop Creative Writing Skills; R. McLeod. 24. Story Building with Computers: Effects on Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Attitude and Writing; D. Little.