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The Art of Typewriting: Introductory Chapters
This eBook version includes the Preface, Foreword and introductory texts only. Here is an authoritative and beautiful overview of the graphic art produced by artists, illustrators and writers who have used the typewriter as a tool and a medium. Marvin and Ruth Sackner mine the superlative collection they have created over four decades to present over 600 examples produced by more than 60 of the world's finest contributors to the genre. From early ornamental works produced by secretaries in the late 19th century to more recent works that consider the uniqueness of the typewritten document in the digital age, there is an astonishing and delightful range of creativity in every artwork. The publ...
The Art of Typewriting
The first definitive overview of typewriter art in decades—with a unique algorithm giving each volume its own cover design The beloved typewriter—its utilitarian beauty, the pleasing percussive action of striking its keys, the singularity of the impressed page—is enjoying a genuine renaissance across the creative industries. In this authoritative publication, the founders of the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, the largest such collection in the world, apply their experience, mining the collection they have created over four decades to present examples produced by more than 200 of the world’s finest typewriter artists. From the early ornamental works produced by secreta...
Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting
This volume marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of William Book's 1908 The Psychology of Skill, in which typewriting received its first large-scale treatment from a psychological standpoint. As Book realized early on, this form of human behavior is particularly well suited to testing psychological theories of complex motor skill and its acquisition, present ing as it does a task that richly engages cognitive and motor components of programming, yet involves a form of response output that can be readily quantified. Now that typewriting is practiced so widely in workday circumstances, studying this activity offers the additional prospect of practical applicability. Until recently, re...
Walmsley's Commercial Typewriting with Text Processing
This edition has been revised and updated to provide guidance on the production of business documents, letters, personal correspondence, and displayed and tabulated work up to advanced level. New to this edition is a chapter on examination practice, which includes sample papers from RSA, LCCI and PEI and takes into account the RSA Text Processing examination and extensive changes made to LCCI and PEI syllabuses. This edition also contains more linked assignments, allowing students to visualize a series of related pieces of correspondence as a whole/one concept and makes sense of the various relevant theories learnt.
