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e-writing

e-writing noun: the practice of writing texts in electronic form.

Noun

e-writing (uncountable)

  1. The practice of writing texts in electronic form.
    • The author, David Siegel, notes that "documents are becoming applications" (vii), a statement that unintentionally sums up the nature of e-writing.2002, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Digital Poetics, page 28
    • 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 […]2006, David Crystal, Language and the Internet, page 126

Origin of e-writing

From e- + writing.

Questions about e-writing

What does e-writing mean?
E-writing means the practice of writing texts in electronic form.
What part of speech is e-writing?
E-writing is a noun.

Words near e-writing in the dictionary

  1. e-words
  2. e-worksheet
  3. e-worksheets
  4. e-world
  5. e-wrestling
  6. e-writing
  7. e-zine
  8. e-zines
  9. e.
  10. E. A. D. A.
  11. E. coli

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