A Better Pencil

by Dennis Baron

Book Overview

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself.

A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388445
• ISBN13: 9780195388442
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.7"