ABSTRACT
In the next two chapters, I present clear, direct evidence of how the material tools of writing significantly and consistently alter the mental processes of text production. This chapter examines how computers impact on writers’ cognitive processes as they plan their texts and on their planning notes. Chapter 5 examines writers’ materially based representations of textual meaning and their physical interactions with written artifacts during the course of text production. Together, the studies presented in these two chapters suggest a picture of computer writing that is subtly, but profoundly, different than writing with pen-and-paper.
