Sunday, 15 December 2002

Rapid Text Construction Most people do not harness the power of personal computers when writing, or when composing information products. I have worked as a university lecturer, technical writer, consultant and have also served in management of an online company. Through witnessing several thousand people who write text, compose documents and some of those documents being information rich documents of more than 200 pages, I have not seen anyone who really harnesses the power of a personal computer and really makes light work of text writing and production tasks. Since retiring from normal work, I have been writing for both a hobby and a living. I applied the concepts of Technacy to these writing tasks and have devised a system, used the system and have shown through the construction of more than 5 different texts that it is possible to compose eBooks, websites, and other texts at the rate of up to 50,000 words per day. Impossible you say? I have demonstrated that it is entirely possible. You too can test it for yourself as I have written an eBook using the principles of Rapid Text Cosntruction (RTC). Download the book here. RTC is based upon the application of Dr Jenkins' theory of Synthesis -- the grammar like structure of Electronic Language. The highly technate person is aware of this structure and can use this grammar-like structure as a resource to make meaning. In grammar people need to cosntruct text grammatically. In Synthesis the concept is not about grammaticality but about efficiency. The objective in Synthesis is to gain efficiencies in composing electronic language. The eBook written by Dr Jenkins on this topic explains how he gains speed in writing tasks through devising a System. A System is composed of a process whereby several programs are linked together to form a systematic way of composing text and gaining efficiencies in that process. The Foreword of the text links the ideas of RTC to technacy and synthesis and provide a unique view into the world of Electronic Language that no other writer is talking about yet. 3:21:42 PM