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Computers and Writing - State of the Art (Paperback, 1992)
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Computers and Writing - State of the Art (Paperback, 1992)
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Patrik O'Brian Holt Heriot-Watt University After speech, writing is
the most common form of human communication and represents the
cornerstone of our ability to preserve and record information.
Writing, by its very definition, requires artifacts in the form of
tools to write with and a medium to write on. Through history these
artifacts have ranged from sticks and clay tablets, feather and
leather, crude pens and paper, sophisticated pens and paper,
typewriters and paper; and electronic devices with or without
paper. The development of writing tools has straightforward
objectives, to make writing easier and more effective and assist in
distributing written communication fast and efficiently. Both the
crudest and most sophisticated forms of writing tools act as
mediators of human written communication for the purpose of
producing, distributing and conserving written language. In the
modern world the computer is arguably the most sophisticated form
of mediation, the implications of which are not yet fully
understood. The use of computers (a writing artifact which mediates
communication) for the production and editing of text is almost as
old as computers themselves. Early computers involved the use of
crude text editors and a writer had to insert commands resembling a
programming language to format and print a document. For example to
underline a word the writer had to do the following, This is an
example of how to .ul underline a single word. in order to produce:
This is an example of how to underline a single word.
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