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Date Posted: 14:08:59 09/06/04 Mon
Author: Maria Tereza
Subject: Re: Preliminary writing assignment
In reply to: Maria Tereza 's message, "Re: Preliminary writing assignment" on 14:04:15 09/06/04 Mon

>.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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