How We Write: Writing as Creative Design

by Mike Sharples

Overview

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 revising visual design of text cultural influences on writing global hypertext and the future of collaborative and on-line writing. By referring to a wealth of examples from writers such as Umberto Eco, Terry Pratchett and Ian Fleming, How We Write ultimately teaches us how to control and extend our own writing abilities. How We Write will be of value to students and teachers of language and psychology, professional and aspiring writers, and anyone interested in this familiar yet complex activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134665389
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Sharples (education technology, the University of Birmingham) offers 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. He explores how children learn to write, examines the processes of composing and revising, and looks at visual design of text. He discusses cultural influences on writing and the creation of a global hypertext, and illustrates habits and strategies of successful and unsuccessful writers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'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

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