Outlining Goes Electronic - Price, Jonathan

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Résumé :
This book examines a writing activity that has recently fallen into disrepute. Outlining has a bad reputation among students, even though many teachers and textbooks still recommend the process. In part, the author argues, the medium is to blame. Paper and ink make the revision difficult. But if one uses an electronic outliner, the activity can be very helpful in developing a thoughtful and effective document, particularly one that spans many pages and deals with a complicated subject. Outlining Goes Electronic takes an historical approach, examining the way people developed the idea of outlining, from the classical period to the present. We see that the medium in which people worked strongly shaped their assumptions, ideas, and use of outlines. In developing a theoretical model of outlining as an activity, the author argues that a relatively new electronic tool-software that accelerates and performs the process of outlining-can give us a new perspective from which to engage previous classroom models of writing, recent writing theory, and current practice in the technical writing field....

Biographie:
Jonathan Price is an author and expert in all things nutrition. His love for good, healthy, nourishing food is translated in his books, wherein he helps hundreds of readers from all over the world lose weight quickly and efficiently, while retaining or building muscle mass and increasing strength and resistance. However, Jonathan did not always start out this way. Almost a decade ago, he was overweight and suffered from a myriad of health issues, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis. When he turned 25, he was constantly out of breath and took regular trips to the Emergency Room. After suffering from a mild stroke shortly after, he knew it was time to turn his life around for the better, or lose it for good. He then spent the next three years studying, applying, and promoting proven health-based principles he has learned from all the health and wellness experts he has had the privilege to work with. Now, Jonathan has penned three best-selling diet and recipe books (and counting), filled with evidence-based information gleaned from his years doing research and working with the best of the best. Kick start your health and weight loss journey, or simply indulge your inner foodie with Jonathan's well-loved books - all of which are now available online, including the High Protein & Low Carb Diet, the ?2020 Cookbook: Pizza 100+ Recipes?, and the ?2020 Essential Diets?.

Sommaire:

Preface
The Situation Today
A Little Context
How Electronic Outlining Helps Writers Turn Structuring into a Continuous Process
Extending the Collaborative Conversation
A Look Back
The Paper Model
Why Outline?
Summing Up
Toward a New Model of Outlining