e-writing

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English

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Etymology

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From e- +‎ writing.

Noun

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e-writing (uncountable)

  1. The practice of writing texts in electronic form.
    • 2002, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Digital Poetics, page 28:
      The author, David Siegel, notes that "documents are becoming applications" (vii), a statement that unintentionally sums up the nature of e-writing.
    • 2006, David Crystal, Language and the Internet, page 126:
      The permanence of e-writing is only a superficial impression. Although a single piece of text may be preserved throughout a thread of messages, via forwarding or replying to author, each screen incarnation gives it a different status []

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