首页
登录
职称英语
Does using a word processor affect a writer’s style? The medium usually doe
Does using a word processor affect a writer’s style? The medium usually doe
游客
2023-11-21
27
管理
问题
Does using a word processor affect a writer’s style? The medium usually does do something to the message after all, even if Marshall McLuhan’s claim that the medium simply is the message has been heard and largely forgotten now. The question matters. Ray Hammond, in his excellent guide The Writer and the Word Processor, predicts that over half the professional writers in Britain and the USA will be using word processors by the end of 1985. The best-known recruit is Len Deighton, from as long ago as 1968, though most users have only started since the microcomputer boom began in 1980.
Ironically word processing is in some ways psychologically more like writing in rough than typing, since it restores fluidity and provisionality to the text. The typist’s dread of having to get out the Tippex, the scissors and paste, or of redoing the whole thing if he has any substantial second thoughts, can make him consistently choose the safer option in his sentences, or let something stand which he knows to be unsatisfactory or incomplete, out of weariness. In word processing the text is loosened up whilst still retaining the advantage of looking formally finished.
This has, I think, two apparently contradictory effects~ The initial writing can become excessively sloppy and careless, in the expectation that it will be corrected later. That crucial first inspiration is never easy to recapture, though, and therefore, on the other hand, the writing can become over-deliberated, lacking in flow and spontaneity, since revision becomes a larger part of composition. However, these are faults easier to detect in others than in oneself. My own experience of the sheer difficulty of committing any words at all to the page means I’m grateful for all the help I can get.
For most Writers, word processing quite rapidly comes to feel like the ideal method (and can always be a second step after drafting on paper if you prefer). Most of the writers interviewed by Hammond say it has improved their style ("immensely", says Deighton). Seeing your own words on a screen helps you to feel cool and detached about them.
Thus it is not just by freeing you from the labor of mechanical retyping that a word processor can help you to write. One author (Terence Feely) claims it has increased his output by 400%. Possibly the feeling of having a reactive machine, which appears to do things, rather than just have things done with it, accounts for this—your slave works hard and so do you.
Are there no drawbacks? It costs a lot and takes time to learn "expect to lose weeks of work", says Hammond, though days might be nearer the mark. Notoriously it is possible to lose work altogether on a word processor, and this happens to everybody at least once. The awareness that what you have written no longer exists anywhere at all, is unbelievably enraging and baffling.
Will word processing generally raise the level of professional writing then? Does it make writers better as well as more productive? Though all users insist it has done so for them individually, this is hard to believe. But reliance happens fast. [br] What appears to be changing rapidly in Britain and the USA?
选项
A、The style writers are employing.
B、The medium authors are using.
C、The way new writers are being recruited.
D、The message authors are putting forward.
答案
B
解析
根据第一段倒数第二句"Ray Hammond,in his excellent guide The Writer and the Word Processor,predicts that over half the professional writers in Britain and the USA will be using word processors by the end of l985”,可以断定B 为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/3207450.html
相关试题推荐
Statisticsisadiscipline______alltheothersciences.A、affectedB、affectingC
Thesaleusuallytakesplaceoutsidethehouse,withtheaudience______onbenc
[originaltext]Peoplehavedifferentperceptions.Ourperceptionsaffectou
The1986Challengerspaceshuttle______wascausedbyunusuallylowtemperature
Thesuddendropintemperaturehasgreatly________thecrops.A、affectedB、effecte
I’musuallyfairlyskepticalaboutanyresearchthatconcludesthatpeople
Tasteissuchasubjectivematterthatwedon’tusuallyconductpreferencet
Thewritertriedtobeas_____________aspossibleinevaluatinghislatestwor
Howmanypassengerswillbeaffectedbythestrike?[originaltext]Flightatte
Whydoesthewritersuggestthatyoushoulddotheworkyourself?.[br][origin
随机试题
悬索桥是跨越千米以上障碍物最理想的桥型,其施工的一般步骤为( )。A.索塔、锚
某多发性内分泌综合征患者,全身多个分泌腺功能亢进。 若患者确定MENⅡ型,其
患者32岁,结婚6年不孕,月经量减少1年,妇科检查:子宫略小,活动受限,双侧宫旁
下列哪项不是诃子的主治病证A.久痢 B.久泻 C.失音 D.久咳 E.心
Theywerelockedinmortalcombat.A:d
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
在修建性详细规划中,对建筑、道路和绿地等的空间布局和景观规划设计的主要目的是(
症状和体征的总称是A.病 B.证 C.症 D.主诉
对c群结核分枝杆菌最敏感的抗结核药物是 A.异烟肼B.利福平C.吡嗪酰胺
农产品在从“田头到餐桌”的全过程中,均有可能被污染,进而引发质量安全问题,这说明
最新回复
(
0
)