Meanings
- uncountableThe 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 281 more example
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
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e-writing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/e-writing
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