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Dillon, A. and Maynard, S. (1995) Don't forget to put the cat out! Why collaborative hypermedia and
everyday writing pass one another by. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia:
Applications and Research, 1, 135-153.
Abstract:
Hypermedia technology is seen as offering potentially innovative support for the process of writing
as much as information access and reading. However, authoring enviroments to date have had little
impact in the realâ world production of text. One possible reason is our poor conceptualisation of
current writing practice. In the present paper, 31 adult writers kept diaries of their writing activities
over the course of one week. The results indicate that for most pople, real world writing is a short
communicative act aimed at a limited audience and that technological support for such writing is
less likely to resemble a hypermedia workstation than a portable personal communication device.
Implications for work in the design of authoring tools are developed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/105975 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Dillon, Andrew, Maynard, Sally |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Journal Article (Paginated) |
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