ABSTRACT
There has never been a time in which so many people have produced so much written text. The main explanation is the steady increase of written literacy all over the world, resulting to a large degree from the wide dissemination of computers and other electronic devices, which facilitated the production of written text in all kinds of new contexts (e.g., social media). However, the use of digital technology in writing has not only changed the way in which we produce texts, but these new technologies also created new possibilities for writing researchers to investigate writing as it unfolds in real time.
