Spatial and Visual Dimensions of Texts

"Composition, as we envision its future, involves more than words plus pictures, or video, or three-dimensional modeling programs and the like. As Jay David Bolter argues, writing is and has always been "topographic"--it is speech made visible and then arranged in a mental space. But until graphic user interfaces for computers became available, writers could not fully exploit the spatial and visual dimensions of texts" (Kaplan and Moulthrop Seeing through the Interface).

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