Third Lens

Abstract

The self as writer consists of the sense of self and the various expressions of the writing process. This is the self that incorporates creative and academic writing and strives for a new writing that blurs the boundaries between the various forms of writing. The writing process is part of the self as writer and includes the formal setting of the writing as manifested in time and in place as well as the production of the writing itself. The writing environment, for the most part a computerized environment, is also part of the writing self due to its impact on the writing process and on the thinking processes of the self that writes.