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Re: re poets as tech writers and programmers - Book Reference Included
Subject:Re: re poets as tech writers and programmers - Book Reference Included From:"Rebecca M. Coplon" <rmcoplon -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:16:07 -0400
All:
I found the book I referred to last week. It's called WRITERS' WORKSHOP &
THE WORK OF MAKING THINGS by Richard P. Gabriel. The back cover reads, in
part:
" The writer's workshop provides creative writers with a time-tested
teaching and revision tool, and business and technical professionals with a
new and effective alternative to impersonal peer reviews and scientific
workshops. In this intense, interactive, gift-based forum, writers help
each other hone their craft and improve individual pieces of work.
... Whether you write poems, short stories, documentation, or software, the
collective energy of a writers' workshop can significantly enhance
innovation, clarity, and effectiveness in your writing.
... Poet and computer scientist Richard P Gabriel, Ph.D., M.F.A., introduced
the writers' workshop to the software patterns community. He is the author
of PATTERNS OF SOFTWARE and PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION OF LIST SYSTEMS. His
poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines."
ISBN: 0-201-72183-X.
Enjoy!
-Rebecca
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Rebecca Coplon
rmcoplon -at- hotmail -dot- com
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Subject: re poets as tech writers and programmers
In a frenzy of gathering material for a creative writing group that I
was responsible for organizing, I picked up a book that I could never
decide where to shelve. It was about taking the form of a writer's
workshop and applying it to technical material, including programming.
I'll have to look it up (I'll obviously have to check both the writer's
group shelf AND the programming shelf to find it) and see if it comments
on this, but I my recollection is that it found more of a connection
between the productive activities of left and right brain than you'd
expect. I'll forward the reference along if anyone's interested.
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