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Actu Outils Collaboratifs Collaborative Writing Next: Computer-based Authoring SystemsUp: Collaborative Authoring & Previous: Collaboration and Collaborative What is collaborative authoring or writing? One definition is: activities involved in the production of a document by more than one author, then pre-draft discussions and arguments as well as post-draft analyses and debates are collaborative components. [1] Based on this definition, the collaborative authoring process includes the writing activity as well as group dynamics. Another definition is "...any piece of writing, published or unpublished, ascribed or anonymous, to which more than one person has contributed, whether or not they grasped a pen, tapped a keyboard, or shuffled a mouse." [61] This definition alludes to the complexity of identifying and acknowledging contributions and their contributors. With collaborative authoring, there is a meshing of the complexity of (technical) writing along with the challenges of collaboration.

The Idea Behind | Fidus Writer Fidus Writer is an online collaborative editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas. The editor focuses on the content rather than the layout, so that with the same text, you can later on publish it in multiple ways: On a website, as a printed book, or as an ebook. In each case, you can choose from a number of layouts that are adequate for the medium of choice. Academic citations Academics need to cite other academics. Collaborative editing Academics need to collaborate when writing texts and books. Collaborating on a text via a web interface is a much smoother affair. Semantic editing and publishing in multiple locations Editors traditionally let you change the font size and type for each letter, word or paragraph of the text.

Business Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking | Socialtext How do I enable page views in Fidus Writer? | Fidus Writer Fidus Writer requires a current version of Google Chrome to run. Additionally, if you want to be able to see individual pages in Fidus Writer, you need to enable “Enable experimental Web Platform features.” in “chrome:flags”. This is how you enable individual page views 1. Type chrome:flags in your location bar like below and hit “Enter”: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PEARLS OF WISDOM: THE BLOG | The Professor Is In | Getting You Through Graduate School, The Job Market and Tenure… Strong stuff: Cardozo writes, “For many if not most, being an adjunct is the professional equivalent of domestic abuse, PTSD and Stockholm syndrome rolled into a single despairing plight that has only one feasible resolution: as with any dysfunctional relationship, at some point you must first DECIDE to go, then GO. The terrible thing is that we lack the professional equivalent of transition shelters. However, The Professor is providing one kind of safe space with the Alt/Post-Ac Initiative, and I mention others below. ” by Karen Cardozo Karen Cardozo I began my visit to The Professor’s virtual office with a post on the problems of tenurecentrism, followed by musings on freeing the academic elephant from its limited range of motion. Not everything begins with a strategic plan; being open to what the universe sends is another option (read: you can thrive despite being clueless and indecisive). Once again, I discovered that I. Meanwhile, what can I tell you?

Substance — Open Documents for the Web Textual harassment Published: 19 December 2011 I n May 1962, Old Street Magistrates Court found Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell guilty of acts of “sheer malice and destruction from which the public must be protected”. Their crime was the theft and defacement of library books. Angered by shelves full of “rubbishy novels”, the pair removed books from local libraries and, back at their bedsit, remade them. They created collage covers and dust-jacket blurbs. Orton’s defacements were provoked by the same anger at middlebrow myopia that led him to fake letters of outrage from “Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)” in response to his own plays (“I myself was nauseated by this endless parade of mental and physical perversion”, etc). as good almost kill a man as kill a good book If six months seems harsh, legal and moral responses to acts of book defacement are often severe: the 1962 prosecuting counsel claimed “in some thirty years of experience I have never seen anything of this nature before”.

Espace Numérique de Travail (ENT) 10 ways to make your writing more academic This lesson looks at 10 different ways to make your writing academic or more formal. I talk you through some of the more important dos and don’ts to help you write essays that use the right sort of language. You will also find a sample essay on transporting food to download and write yourself in an exercise to help you use this language. academic Academic/formal and IELTS How important is it to be academic in IELTS? In practice, this means you need to follow of the guidelines below, but you shouldn’t become obsessive about it. Test yourself first This quiz gives you 10 sentences. 5 of them are more academic and 5 are less academic. Points to avoid in academic writing This is a short form guide to some of the “don’ts” in academic writing. 1. We don’t use short forms of verbs (don’t/can’t etc) when we write more academically. I think very important for small kids to learn English. 2. When we write academically, we tend to use more precise language. This is to . 3. 4. A difficult one. 5. 6.

When News Was Illuminated: Media Innovation In The Manuscript Era I’ve just been reading Elizabeth Eisenstein’s classic account of the Printing Press As An Agent Of Changewhich shows how Gutenberg’s innovation helped shape profound transformations in religion, science, politics and art in the Middle Ages. But a wonderful new exhibition of illuminated manuscripts from the Royal collections shows that there was also incredible diversity, imagination and craft in communications before the advent of movable type. To be honest, you should just go and see ‘Royal Manuscripts: The Genius Of Illumination’ at the British Library because it is so beautiful. Gorgeous gilts, luscious colours, divine detail, inspirational design and some exquisite marginalia make art out of the bibles, psalters, royal charters, genealogies, maps and other documents that a medieval monarch needed to service their political, economic and spiritual lives. Printing swept this all aside. This (very big) exhibition displays a wide range of data visualisations.

My Tribute to Evernote: A Student's Guide Continuing my overview of Kierkegaard's challenging work on Christian love. My goal is to reflect what Kierkegaard says, not what I think on the subject. Despite not showing preference, one is not to stop loving their beloved, since to do so would be contradictory as the neighbour is everyone. Only the preferential should be taken out of love, not the love itself. The more preferentially one loves, the further from neighbourly love one gets. Therefore, the highest love is neighbourly love. Friendship and erotic love require additional objects to love, however neighbourly love has no object, just love. Even non-Christians display Christian love when they shutter at certain forms of distinction (e.g. caste system). However, Christianity - though making all men equal - has not taken away distinctions. The reason Christianity does not take away distinctions is because it is unconcerned with worldliness: It is not that the high born need to become lowly, or the lowly need to be lifted up.

Jokes, Hoaxes & Other Literary Frauds Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed by Maria Monk This 1836 book details seven nightmare years in a convent. Investigations revealed it was fiction and Monk had suffered brain damage as a child. Literary hoaxes, pranks and frauds have been around since the early days of the printing press. One well documented example was in the late 18th century when Thomas Chatterton wrote a number of poems and then claimed that they had been written by a 15th century monk named Thomas Rowley, and that he had merely transcribed them. Pulling off a hoax of that magnitude requires gall and skill – and it doesn’t always succeed. Another famous failed hoax came a few years later when the German news magazine Stern published excerpts of what they thought were the diaries of Adolf Hitler. The Amber Witch by Wilhelm Meinhold In the 1840s, Meinhold published what he claimed was an instructional document for the avoidance of witchcraft written by a minister.

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