Tuesday, 17 December 2002

Rapid Text Construction Defined . . . This is a concept of electronic composing, devised by Dr Elwyn Jenkins, where a composer (a writer in the era of electronic text needs to be consider a composer rather than writer) using a computer and a suite of two or more computer programs devises a way to build text from larger chunks of language than letters and words. Essentially, a composer databases all her/his writing in text chunks. As a writer often uses previous concepts to build the next text, there is no need to re-write the concept, but rather borrow text chunks from previously written text. The problem solved by Dr Jenkins in working towards this goal was to locate a program that provided not only a way to database text chunks, but also a way to logically connect these chunks to speed-up the process of text chunk selection so that text chunk selection occurs quicker than re-writing a group of 200 to 400 words. This was solved by using the program PersonalBrain 2.1 where text chunks are stored as either .doc files or .rtf files and can be sorted by the meta-storage device called a 'thought', in PersonalBrain terminaology, or text searching through the files stored in a 'Brain', the storage concept of The Brain Technologies Inc. Rapid Text Construction can build a text at the rate of 25,000 words per day instead of the normal 6,000 to 7,000 words that an author can normally write using traditional word processing methods. Dr Jenkins now frequently practises writing in this manner completing the text "Build eTexts Faster and Better using Rapid Text Construction Techniques" in less than a day. [Download a copy using the link provided.] The book provides a wider background to the issues of Rapid Text Construction and provides a hands-on approach to actually practising this form of text production. You should also go to TEXT CHUNK INFORMATION. You may also register to download the PersonalBrain Navigation Brain for the TEXT CHUNK LIBRARY on this page. 10:59:29 PM