Computers and Writing

The relationship between computers and writing has, over the last few years, taken on a new significance. Not only do computers provide help in conventional writing tasks, they provide new ways of writing, through networking, electronic publishing, and hypertext. The machine itself may even begin to write. This book contains a selected set of papers derived from the Third International Conference on Computers and Writing. The topics covered include: the design of software for writers; teaching and training writers by computer; cognitive assessment of writing; uses of hypertext in writing; interactive fiction; story generation; computer-based discourse modelling; computers and technical writing; evaluation of writing software and computer-based writing programs. The book should appeal to a wide audience, including researchers interested in theoretical and applied issues related to computers and writing, teachers and trainers of writers, documenters, technical writers and educationalists generally.