A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and wri
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| Title | : | A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution |
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195388445 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-09-24 |
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Editorial : "A splendid history Baron's retelling of the history of techno-skepticism is edifying."--City Journal"Baron offers a breezy overview of the ways that technology is shaping reading and writing practices. This book will be valued in future as a well-contextualized survey of issues that surface among writers in the current online landscape. Today's reader will appreciate the conversational style and the reminders that many of the supposed consequences of the digital revolution were ever thus. Some may smile with recognition as they recall WordStar and the evolution of word processing applications." --CHOICE"His fast-paced, chatty, engaging history of reading and writing implicitly leads toward some sort of insight about the future."--Frederick E. Allen, Technology and Culture
Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before. The book explores our use of computers as writing tools in light of the history of communication technology, a history of how we love, fear, and actually use our writing technologies--not just computers, but also typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets. Dennis Baron shows that virtually all writing implements--and even writing itself--were greeted at first with anxiety and outrage: the printing press disrupted the "almost spiritual connection" between the writer and the pa
Helped me get a B in a 500 level class whose four prior prerequisites I was not able to take but were necessary.. The rhetorical choices one makes as a result of this larger and mostly unkown audience are significant, and yet Baron still wants to say that the computer is only another in a long line of tools that we use to compose with.
The second rhetorical revolutionary change is the time from composition to publishing. A great book to add to your craft/art library. This is one of the few books I have bought that I read cover to cover. However, oddly enough,several photographs are blurry, blown out or out of focus. But to suggest that new media and technology is just another pencil is to ignore the rhetorical challenges of a generation.. This book is the standard textbook used by many VO-TECH schools and is well worth the price. Picture after picture, room after room, with nary a word telling you anything about them. I openly admit to being an unabashed fan of Wolf's. Every
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