Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Computer Networks and Literacy Message-ID: <909@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 16:18:47 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.909 Posted: Mon Dec 1 16:18:47 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 20:05:25 EST Reply-To: hplabs!seismo!mnetor!lsuc!dciem!msb@hplabs.HP.COM Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <882@hplabsc.UUCP> This article is from seismo!mnetor!lsuc!dciem!msb@hplabs.HP.COM and was received on Mon Dec 1 10:16:33 1986 > The computer screens us, hides our physical flaws and allows us to present > our ideas for what they are worth. The only things we can be judged by are > our ideas, our spelling and our grammar. Our ideas and our *presentation*. The latter includes not only spelling and grammar but also composition and text format decisions. Mark Brader [a fine distinction, but important. Akin to the problem that a lot of people have with so-called `book club' editions of books - they are on cheaper paper and aren't smoothly cut after being bound (leaving the sheets slightly different widths) - when they say they aren't as "nice" as "real" books. The presentation is quite important... -- Dave]