The Impact of Word Processing o ulty and Their Secretaries Lucio Teles Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B .C. V5A 1S6 Canada Ronald Ragsdale The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 252 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 tine Behaviour : e Interacti 1. Word Processing and Writing Behaviour Although the computer, for educational purposes, was originally seen as a potentially powerful "teaching machine" in CAI applications, it is word processing which has become the computer application most used in education and in society at large (Heermann, 1986). A wide variety of instruments preceded the introduction of this new electronic tool: chisel, quill, pen, printing press, and typewriter . Two kinds of change are associated with these changes of instruments : the writing product is affected by these tools and humans have also to adapt to the new demands created by these inventions (Ong, 1982). The word processor introduces new features and brings new problems, and at the same time eliminates traditional writing behaviour that was molded most recently by handwriting, the printing press, and the typewriter (Lyman, 1984 ; Meeker, 1984 ; Becker, 1986). Word processing may provoke unexpected outcomes of which not even
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The impact of word processing on writing behaviour: the interaction of faculty and their secretaries
Teles, Lucio; Ragsdale, Ronald
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jan 2, 1991
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