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Date Posted: 13:47:21 09/06/04 Mon
Author: Maria Tereza
Subject: Re: Task 1

Computer Assisted Language Learning


This essay has the intention to convince people like me, who is not too acquainted with computer, and is always giving excuses for not writing on it, how helpful this device might be when producing an academic text, specially if you do not have much time to do it.
One excuse stuburned people always give is that, one can not get inspired when typing on a keyboard."It is too mechanical", they say. So they rather write on a piece of paper, and then, after making all the necessary correction, use the keyboard. What a waste of time, of paper, of eraser, and whatever other tool one might use to write.First of all, inspiration do not come out of pens, pencils and paper, it comes out of your mind. When using the keyboard to write on the computer screen for the first time, it might seem acquard, but after doing it a few times it will turn out to be an extremely easy task. It is just a matter of practicing, and will save you lots of time. As the old proverb says: "the more you practice, the better you get".
Reserching through the internet is another reason why people, should choose the computer instead of a piece of paper to write essays, especially if your paper is about to due. When you need to know more about a subject to improve your text, the best way is to use a device called the internet. As many people already know, there you can find lots of information on the subject you are working on, without living your seat to go to a library whose employees might be even on a strike.
And last but not least, computer devices can be very helpful when it comes to correct spelling and grammar mistakes on your essay before handing it. When writing without the help of the computer, one must have lots of time to spend looking for the right spelling of the words on a dictionary, and for the correct sentence structure on grammar books. Using the computer tools, one just have to click on the mouse for the spelling check and, access some sites to help you find, for instance, which preposition goes with certain verbs.
Concluding, if you had a short time to write and hand your text, and spent the time on writing, erasing, correcting and going to the library to do reserchs like on the old times, you could have used this time to produce an essay much more improved, by just using the computer and its devices.

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