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Writing With a Computer

Abstract

This essay conjectures that an author's planning process will be facilitated by a tool that represents his plan at various levels of abstraction as a network of subgoals, with the subgoals not necessarily restricted to a linear order. Machine reasoning on such structures has been explored in artificial intelligence research; our proposal is to make these structures available to the writer as a calculus for representing his essays and to use the computer

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