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A Better Pencil Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

A Better Pencil By Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

A Better Pencil by Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution by Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

A Better Pencil examines the digital revolution in light of the history of writing technology. Baron looks at how we love, fear, actually use our writing machines-not just computers but typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets-how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression; how we learn to trust new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces; hwo we expand the notion of who can write and who can't; and how we free our readers and writers while at the same time trying to regulate their activities.

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A useful counter-argument to the gloomy techno-pessimists, * Henry Farrell, Times Higher Education *

About Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

Preface: Technologies of the Word ; Introduction ; 1. TeknoFear ; 2. Thoreau's Pencil ; 3. National Handwriting Day ; 4. Writing on Clay ; 5. When WordStar Was King ; 6. Trusting the Text ; 7. Writing on Screen ; 8. Everyone's an Author ; 9. A Space of One's Own ; 10. The Dark Side of the Web ; 11. From Pixels to Pencils ; Works Cited

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GOR011581196
9780195388442
0195388445
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution by Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Oxford University Press Inc
20091029
280
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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