Computers And Writing

Author : M. Sharples
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401126748

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Computers and Writing by M. Sharples Pdf

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.

Author : Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106015911784

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Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994 by Gail E. Hawisher Pdf

This book is a history composed of histories. Its particular focus is the way in which computers entered and changed the field of composition studies, a field that defines itself both as a research community and as a community of teachers. This may have a somewhat sinister suggestion that technology alone has agency, but this history (made of histories) is not principally about computers. It is about people-the teachers and scholars who have adapted the computer to their personal and professional purposes. From the authors' perspectives, change in technology drives changes in the ways we live and work, and we, agents to a degree in control of our own lives, use technology to achieve our human purposes. REVIEW: . . . This book reminds those of us now using computers to teach writing where we have been, and it brings those who are just entering the field up to date. More important, it will inform administrators, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for implementing the future uses of technology in writing instruction. - Computers and Composition

Author : Mike Sharples,Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000591453

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Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers by Mike Sharples,Rafael Pérez y Pérez Pdf

This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers. Providing examples of story machines through the ages, it covers the history, recent developments, and future implications of automated story generation. Anyone with an interest in story writing will gain a new perspective on what it means to be a creative writer, what parts of creativity can be mechanized, and what is essentially human. Story Machines is for those who have ever wondered what makes a good story, why stories are important to us, and what the future holds for storytelling.

Author : James Paul Gee,Elisabeth R. Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136825668

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Language and Learning in the Digital Age by James Paul Gee,Elisabeth R. Hayes Pdf

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media actually power up or enhance the powers of oral language. Gee and Hayes deal, as well, with current digital transformations of language and literacy in the context of a growing crisis in traditional schooling in developed countries. With the advent of new forms of digital media, children are increasingly drawn towards video games, social media, and alternative ways of learning. Gee and Hayes explore the way in which these alternative methods of learning can be a force for a paradigm change in schooling. This is an engaging, accessible read both for undergraduate and graduate students and for scholars in language, linguistics, education, media and communication studies.

Author : Jay David Bolter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135679576

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Writing Space by Jay David Bolter Pdf

This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media, and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies, and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.

Author : Carl Whithaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317441434

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Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing by Carl Whithaus Pdf

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing offers a theoretical framework, case studies and methods for evaluating student writing. By examining issues in writing assessment the book discovers four situated techniques of authentic assessment that are already in use at a number of locales throughout the US.

Author : Bertram C. Bruce,Andee Rubin,with contributi Barnhardt and Teachers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136690563

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Electronic Quills by Bertram C. Bruce,Andee Rubin,with contributi Barnhardt and Teachers Pdf

This volume centers on the words and experiences of teachers and students who used QUILL -- a software package developed by the authors to aid in writing instruction. It looks in detail at the stories of these early users and considers questions relevant for other teachers, students, researchers, and developers of educational innovations. Questions posed include: * What does it mean to develop an environment for literacy in an actual classroom? * How can a teacher create an environment in which students work together toward meaningful goals? * How can a teacher promote the rich communication so necessary for developing language? * What is the role of technology in the practice and development of literacy? The examination of the QUILL experiences provides a fuller and more revealing account of what it meant to use QUILL than would have been possible through standard evaluation techniques. At the same time, the focus on the particulars also finds analogues in analyses of similar pieces of open-ended software or educational innovations in general.

Author : Aimee Lucido
Publisher : Versify
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780358040828

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Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido Pdf

Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.

Author : Patrik O'Brian Holt,Noel Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789401128544

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Computers and Writing by Patrik O'Brian Holt,Noel Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791036566875

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B C, Before Computers by Stephen Robertson Pdf

The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson's BC: Before Computers is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand - all the ways we had to evolve our thinking - before we could enter the information technology revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. Its focus ranges from the beginnings of data processing, right back to such originary forms of human technology as the development of writing systems, gathering a whole history of revolutionary moments in the development of information technologies into a single, although not linear narrative. Treading the line between philosophy and technical history, Robertson draws on his extensive technical knowledge to produce a text which is both thought-provoking and accessible to a wide range of readers. The book is wide in scope, exploring the development of technologies in such diverse areas as cryptography, visual art and music, and the postal system. Through all this, it does not simply aim to tell the story of computer developments but to show that those developments rely on a long history of humans creating technologies for increasingly sophisticated methods of manipulating information. Through a clear structure and engaging style, it brings together a wealth of informative and conceptual explorations into the history of human technologies, and avoids assumptions about any prior knowledge on the part of the reader. As such the expert and the general reader alike will find it of interest.

Author : Michelle Sidler,Elizabeth Overman Smith,Richard Morris
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312458444

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Computers in the Composition Classroom by Michelle Sidler,Elizabeth Overman Smith,Richard Morris Pdf

Computers in the Composition Classroom introduces new teachers and scholars to the best thinking and practices that inform sound computer-assisted writing pedagogy. Chapters focus on critical issues such as literacy and access; identity and online writing practices; composing online; and the future of technology and writing.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781640094581

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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry Pdf

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). "A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones." Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" in the late 1980s for Harper's Magazine, galvanizing a critical reaction eclipsing any the magazine had seen before. He followed by responding with "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine." Both essays are collected in one short volume for the first time.

Author : John Jones,Lavinia Hirsu
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817359546

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Rhetorical Machines by John Jones,Lavinia Hirsu Pdf

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife with the values of those who create it and thus has powerful ethical and moral implications. From Socrates’s critique of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus to emerging new media and internet culture, the scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects. This multidisciplinary volume features contributions from scholar-practitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main sections: “Emergent Machines” examines how technologies and algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes, “Operational Codes” explores how computational processes are used to achieve rhetorical ends, “Ethical Decisions and Moral Protocols” considers the ethical implications involved in designing software and that software’s impact on computational culture, and the final section includes two scholars’ responses to the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents) addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section. At the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer science, writing studies, and the digital humanities.

Author : James A. Inman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135636951

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Computers and Writing by James A. Inman Pdf

In this book, James A. Inman explores the landscape of the contemporary computers and writing community. Its six chapters engage critical issues, including redefining the community's generally accepted history, connecting its contemporary innovators with its long-standing spirit of innovation, advocating for increased access and diversity, and more. Between chapters, readers will find "Community Voices" sections, which provide a snapshot of the contemporary computers and writing community and introduce, in a non-hierarchical form, more than 100 of its members from around the world, in their own voices. Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era features a simultaneous emphasis on individuals, communities, and contexts they share; a creative rethinking of the character and values of the computers and writing community; a holistic exploration of meaning-making; and an activist approach to pedagogy. It is a must-read book for anyone interested in rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy, including faculty, graduate students, and colleagues in professions outside the academy.

Author : J. David Bolter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805829180

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Writing Space by J. David Bolter Pdf