mamrak@bucatina.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sandy Mamrak) (11/22/88)
Craig Joseph and I have co-authored a technical report entitled Computerized Systems to Support Scholarly Writing: A Survey and Assessment. It is available free-of-charge by sending your post office address to me through email. ABSTRACT Existing computer systems to support scholarly writing are inadequate to meet the needs of authors. This paper presents a new model of scholarly writing, merging elements from several models of a scholar as a composing author. The new model identifies the activities that encompass the authoring task, arranged into three stages. The middle stage, composition, is bracketed by stages that support activities peripheral to the primary writing endeavor of forming a coherent sequence out of a set of ideas, notes, figures, and so on. The functionality of a computer system suitable to support this model of scholarly writing is described. An assessment of the capability of current technology to provide this functionality reveals that much research must be done before the necessary functionality can be supported by computers. A survey of six existing computerized writing systems is included: Concordia, Framework II, Fullwrite, Notecards, The Publisher and WE.
jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (11/28/88)
mamrak@bucatina.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sandy Mamrak) wrote: > Craig Joseph and I have co-authored a technical report entitled > Computerized Systems to Support Scholarly Writing: A Survey and > Assessment. It is available free-of-charge by sending your post > office address to me through email. I have never had to do this before, but: please send me a copy, I can't reach you by email. (I have just made four unsuccessful attempts at getting to wayne-s@cis.ohio-state.edu; could you let him know I tried?) What's the problem with Ohio State? Is this just a difficulty for British sites or do people the other side of the pond find it just as inaccessible? (I've tried both through UUCP and the Arpanet). -- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk USENET: jack@cs.glasgow.uucp JANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs useBANGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack Mail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Dept., Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND work 041 339 8855 x 6045; home 041 556 1878