This is a guide to writing process, from forming ideas to formatting text. The book aims to offer a full account of the mental, physical and social aspects of writing. Topics include: how children learn to write; the importance of reflective thinking; processes of planning, composing and revising; visual design of text; cultural influences on writing; global hypertext; and the future of collaborative and on-line writing.

This is a guide to writing process, from forming ideas to formatting text. The book aims to offer a full account of the mental, physical and social aspects of writing. Topics include: how children learn to write; the importance of reflective thinking; processes of planning, composing and revising; visual design of text; cultural influences on writing; global hypertext; and the future of collaborative and on-line writing.

This text addresses the key challenge of how to resource and support processes of inquiry learning within and beyond the classroom. It argues that technological support, when coupled with appropriate design of activities and management of the learning environment, can enable inquiry learning experiences that are engaging.

This book grew out of the Fourth Conference on Computers and the Writing process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. Fifteen refereed papers were selected from the conference and the authors were asked to develop them into chapters appropriate for this book, incorporating insights gained from their conference presentations.

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...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, held in Lyon, France, in September 2016.
The 26 full papers, 23 short papers, 8 demo papers, and 33 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions.