The Computer as Stylus and Audience

Abstract

of some physical and psychological constraints. The text editor enables writers to compose more quickly and freely because all changes they make in a text are automatically incorporated, thus eliminating the need to recopy. This takes some burdens off short-term memory. In addition, the interactiveness of the text editor stimulates writers to take a reader's point of view and thus evaluate their writing and find their own mistakes. In this paper, I discuss these physical and psychological constraints and explain the role of the computer text editor in overcoming them.

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