The topic of this book is the act of writing, how a message to be communicated is transferred from the writer’s thoughts to a surface (be it paper or a computer screen), and the cognitive and technological impediments to that process. The technological details vary greatly across different conditions but one thing they have in common is the technology that underlies the whole act of writing: writing itself. To understand how printing, typing, computer input systems, or the writer’s knowledge of their language and writing system influence the act of writing, it is therefore important to understand something about how writing itself works.

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Writing, speech and graphical representation

  • Brian Roark,
  • Richard Sproat,
  • Su-Youn Yoon

摘要

The topic of this book is the act of writing, how a message to be communicated is transferred from the writer’s thoughts to a surface (be it paper or a computer screen), and the cognitive and technological impediments to that process. The technological details vary greatly across different conditions but one thing they have in common is the technology that underlies the whole act of writing: writing itself. To understand how printing, typing, computer input systems, or the writer’s knowledge of their language and writing system influence the act of writing, it is therefore important to understand something about how writing itself works.