240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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How We Write is an accessible guide to the entire writing process, from forming ideas to formatting text. Combining new explanations of creativity with insights into writing as design, it offers a full account of the mental, physical and social aspects of writing. How We Write explores: how children learn to write the importance of reflective thinking processes of planning, composing and... Read more
Part One Writing in the head Chapter 1 The nature of writing Chapter 2 Becoming a writer Chapter 3 Constraint and creativity Part Two Writing with the page Chapter 4 Writing as design Chapter 5 Planning Chapter 6 Composing Chapter 7 Revising Chapter 8 Being a writer Chapter 9 Writing images Part Three Writing in the world Chapter 10 Messages in bottles and cultures Chapter 11 Writing together Chapter 12 Media slip, dynatext, hypermedia and the docuverse
Biography
Mike Sharples is Professor of Education Technology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing, Computer Supported Collaborative Writing and (with Thea van der Geest) The New Writing Environment.
'This book will help pave the way for a new trend in writing research/learning/teaching in the 21st century - International Journal for Language and Documentation
'Whatever kind of writing you have to do, bad habits are hard to ditch. Here's a chance to acquire some better ones.' - New Scientist Magazine, 20 February 1999
