| Together with Technology: Writing Review, Enculturation, and Technological Mediation Contributor(s): Swarts, Jason (Author) |
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ISBN: 0895033623 ISBN-13: 9780895033628 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Editing & Proofreading - Psychology | Mental Health - Psychology | Research & Methodology |
| Dewey: 808.027 |
| LCCN: 2007008587 |
| Series: Baywood's Technical Communications |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the complex roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. Texts make knowledge and experience tangible and durable. They help shape interactions between people. As professions have become more writing-centered in recent decades, many organizations have instituted writing review practices to help newcomers produce better writing and thus become more effective organizational citizens.Dr. Swarts examines those writing review practices and questions whether available supportive technologies adequately prepare professional writers and professionals who write to appreciate the complex functions their texts serve. He reports on a study of the impact of two technologies (paper text and textual replay) on writing review. Unlike paper, which presents texts in a static form, textual replay presents texts as the products of writing practices. Textual replay records onscreen writing activity and creates a video that writers and reviewers use to supplement their discussion of revisions. |