A better pencil: readers, writers, and the digital revolution
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1. Verfasser: Baron, Dennis E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index
Writing it down -- TeknoFear -- Thoreau's pencil -- National handwriting day -- Writing on clay -- When WordStar was king -- Trusting the text -- Writing on screen -- Everyone's an author -- A space of one's own -- The dark side of the Web -- From pencils to pixels
Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before. The book explores our use of computers as writing tools in light of the history of co
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 259 pages)
ISBN:0195388445
0199736774
9780195388442
9780199736775

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