Writing with a Word Processor

图书信息

作者	Zinsser, William
出版社	Harper Paperbacks
ISBN	9780062244826
出版时间	2012-10-01
字数	16.1万
分类	Harper Paperbacks,进口书,外文原版书,教育,学习

读书简介

In this helpful and entertaining book the author of the classic On Writing Well explains that he has always had a love of paper and a fear of mechanical objects. He describes how he confronted his hang-ups, got a word processor, taught himself to use it and gradually overcame his sense of inferiority to the machine. He explains how the word processor by enabling him to revise his work instantly on a screen has changed his lifelong methods of writing, rewriting and editing.But William Zinsser's book isn't only for writers. It's for all the people who have to do any kind of writing memos, letters, reports, directives as part of their working day. It explains how the word processor will save time and money in an office or a corporation and predicts that it will soon be our primary writing tool. On one level Writing with a Word Processor is a manual for beginners that describes clearly and simply how to use the new technology. But it is also one writer's story. William Zinsser takes the reader along on a highly personal journey, writing with warmth and humor about his anxieties and fears, his setbacks and triumphs. His book is both an informal guide and an encouraging companion.

目录

Contents

Preface

1. Personal Baggage

2. Entering the Future

3. A Shopping Trip

4. Four Hang-ups

5. It Arrives

6. Eyestrain

7. Privacy

8. The Day It Happened

9. Some Precautions

10. More Troubles

11. Disks

12. The Keyboard

13. Pagination

14. Printing

15. Progress Report

16. The Act of Writing: One Man’s Method

17. The Act of Writing: Other Methods

18. The Final Step

About the Author

Books by William Zinsser

Copyright

About the Publisher