This book grew out of the Fourth Conference on Computers and the Writing
Process, held at the University of Sussex in March 1991. The conference
brought together a wide variety of people interested in most aspects of
computers and the writing process including, computers and writing
education, computer supported fiction, computers and technical writing,
evaluation of computer-based writing, and hypertext. Fifteen papers were
selected from the twenty-five delivered at the conference. The authors
were asked to develop them into articles, incorporating any insights
they had gained from their conference presentations. This book offers a
survey of the wide area of Computers and Writing, and describes current
work in the design and use of computer-based tools for writing.
University of Sussex M.S. October, 1991 Note from Publisher This
collection of articles is being published simultaneously as a special
issue, Volume 21(1-3), of Instructional Science - An International
Journal of Learning and Cognition. Instructional Science 21: 1-4 (1992)
1 (c) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Introduction MIKE SHARPLES
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BNl 9QH, United Kingdom.