The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology

Section 1 Writers at Work: Expanding the Notion of Writing.- Section 1: Contents.- Section 1: Introduction.- 1 Professional Writing Studied: Authors' Accounts of Planning in Document Production Processes.- 2 Writing, Speaking, Drawing: the Distribution of Meaning in Architects' Communication.- 3 Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government.- Section 2 Writers at Work in a New Writing Environment.- Section 2: Contents.- Section 2: Introduction.- 4 Computer Support for Producing Software Documentation: Some Possible Futures.- 5 Academic Writing and Information Retrieval.- 6 Professional Authorship in the Electronic World.- 7 Designs for New Writing Environments.- Section 3 Designing and Developing the New Writing Environment.- Section 3: Contents.- Section 3: Introduction.- 8 Two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing.- 9 Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing.- 10 User-oriented Index Design for Computer-based Documentation.- Section 4 New Ways of Writing: Multimedia and Networks.- Section 4: Contents.- Section 4: Introduction.- 11 Spider Webs, Symphonies and the Yellow-Brick Road: Form and Structure in Electronic Texts.- 12 Knowledge Package Construction and Conceptual Navigation using a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS).- 13 When Worlds Collide: Merging Face-to-face and Virtual Academic Conferences.- 14 Citizens' Networks: Examples of Utopian Uses of Computer-mediated Communication.- About the Authors.- Name Index.