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Writing Workflows: Beyond Word Processing

Tim Lockridge and Derek Van Ittersum 2020 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Sweetland Center for Writing in making this book possible.
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Since the late 1990s, writing process research has often treated the tools of writing as an invisible variable or idiosyncratic choice. For example, writing process research might examine how a writer develops ideas or moves through drafts, but it often omits the role of tools: a favorite fountain pen, a trusty yellow memo pad, or a mobile notetaking app. Writing Workflows: Beyond Word Processing uses the concept of the "writing workflow" to bring attention to those seemingly invisible tool choices. Through a type of reflection that the authors call "workflow thinking," writers can look at their processes and ask how tools shape their habits—and how a change in tools might offer new ways of thinking and writing. Similarly, the book also introduces a practice the authors call "workflow mapping," which helps writers trace their tool preferences across time. Through workflow mapping a writer can better see how their tool preferences have accrued over time and imagine how new technologies might fit in. Ultimately, the book offers these new theories to help researchers better understand how writing process shapes the tools of writing, and how the tools of writing, in turn, also shape writing process.
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  • Writing
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  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Process to Workflow
    • What is a workflow?
    • What does a workflow look like?
    • From Process to Workflow
    • Process and Computing
    • The Word Processor
    • The word processor arrives
    • Contemporary computing and normalized friction
    • Workflow as a way forward
    • What workflows offer
  • Chapter 2. Sociocultural Theory and Mediational Means
    • Calls for More Research on Writing Processes
    • Tracing Literate Activity with Sociocultural Theory
    • Participants
    • Computation, Representation, and Inclusion
    • Study Design
    • Case Study
    • Spotlight on Interview Questions
  • Chapter 3. Cooking Ideas
    • Writing with Computers
    • Sparks’s Workflow
    • Tool Selection
    • Mediational Means
    • Workflow Thinking
    • Shaping mind
    • The Limits of Tools and Workflows
    • Conclusion
    • Spotlight on Markdown
  • Chapter 4. Automating Writing
    • Blogging Friction
    • SearchLink
    • Automation
    • Using SearchLink
    • “Just Write” ideology
    • Distributing Automation
    • Conclusion
    • Spotlight on Affiliate Marketing
  • Chapter 5. Writing on the Edge
    • Federico Viticci
    • Viticci’s Writing
    • Initial Constraints of iOS
    • Viticci’s workflow history
    • Initial forays into scripting
    • Writing and Scripting Together
    • Developer Relationships
    • Finding the Limits
    • Workflow Planning
    • Toward New Roles in the Field
  • Chapter 6. Mapping Workflows
    • Workflow Mapping
    • An Example
    • Workflow mapping in context
    • Mapping our workflows
    • Derek’s Workflows
    • Tim’s Workflows
    • Workflows and scholarly genres—Ways forward
    • The Software Review
    • The Workflow Narrative
    • Conclusion
  • References
  • Credits
    • Acknowledgments
    • Image and Video Credits

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Brett Terpstra talks about word processing history and file formats

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Fig10. A screenshot of the minimal interface of WordPerfect, version 5.1, released in 1989.

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Fig11. A screenshot of the similarly minimal writing interface of Byword 2, released in 2013.

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