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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) The purpose of computer writing
- (2) (*COMP.COMP*) (3)
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 02:01:00 GMT
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- Entry: 3
- Date: 2 Nov 92 16:01:00 GMT
- From: "Joe Chew" <agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!csa3.lbl.gov!jtchew@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Message-id: <2NOV199208013834@csa3.lbl.gov>
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- Subject: RE: (Fwd: *C&CD*) The purpose of computer writing (2) (*COMP.COMP*) (3)
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
- Reply-to: comp.edu.composition <compos01%ulkyvx.bitnet@ucbvax.Berkeley.edu>
-
- I agree. Computers are very important in writing. Don't be
- ashamed to ask your students how to use them.
-
- OK; OK; cheap shot. But my God, when I realize that the kid has
- more computing horsepower at school than I have at home (I'm still
- slightly ahead of her at work)... Do any of you teaching guys
- ever feel like you're explaining water to a fish?
-
- Having looked at a paper or three, I don't necessarily see a whole
- lot about the differences in writing between typewriter and computer
- that didn't come out in, say, Zinsser's _Writing with a Word
- Processor_ about a decade ago. Maybe there's an interesting frontier
- in networked collaboration, though, by which I mean (after Jonathan
- Price) genuine deep collaboration, not independent work on separate
- elements which someone later unites.
-
- This oughtta fan the flames pretty good... :)
-
- Joe
- "The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" --Robert Service
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