Research Catalog

Title

Text, ConText, and HyperText : writing with and for the computer / edited by Edward Barrett.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barrett, Edward.

Description

xxv, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

MIT Press series in information systems

Uniform Title

MIT Press series in information systems

Subject

• Electronic data processing documentation
• Electronic data processing > Authorship
• Text processing (Computer science)
• Word Processing
• Electronic data processing > Authorship
• Electronic data processing documentation
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Computerlinguistik
• Hypertext systems
• Traitement de texte
• Informatique > Documentation
• Édition électronique

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : a new paradigm for writing with and for the computer / Edward Barrett -- The future of "writing" for the computer industry / Mark P. Haselkorn -- Artificial intelligence and automated publishing systems / Geoffrey James -- Exploring the connections between improved technology-- workstation and desktop publishing and improved methodology-- document databases / R. John Brockmann -- The ethics of automated publishing systems / Geoffrey James -- Text processing with the START Natural Language System / Boris Katz -- Using an object-oriented programming language to create audience-driven hypermedia environments / Geri Younggren -- Hypertext : a way of incorporating user feedback into online documentation / Patricia Ann Carlson -- Hypertext and the teaching of writing / John M. Slatin -- Information development is part of product development-- not an afterthought / Roger A. Grice -- Corporate culture, technical documentation, and organization diagnosis / Lawrence B. Levin -- Usability : stereotypes and traps / Edmond H. Weiss -- Investment in computer-product documentation : causes and effects / John Kirsch -- Preparing for a successful large-scale courseware development project / Richard Ziegfeld [and others] -- The on-line environment and in-house training / Edward Barrett and James Paradis -- Technology + design + research = information design / Elizabeth Keyes, David Sykes, and Elaine Lewis -- Writers as total desktop publishers : developing a conceptual approach to training / Patricia Sullivan -- Are writers obsolete in the computer industry? / Muriel Zimmerman -- Designing online information / Philip Rubens and Robert Krull -- Technical writers as computer scientists : the challenges of online documentation / Henrietta Nickels Shirk -- Creating a style for online help / Jonathan Price -- How "friendly" is your writing for readers around the world? / John Kirkman.

ISBN

• 0262022753
• 9780262022750
• 0262521628
• 9780262521628
• 9780262255714 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

87036157

OCLC

• ocm17443524
• 17443524
• SCSB-1196134

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library