Thursday, May 29, 2008

Annotated Table of Contents: The Computer and Writing Instruction

Teaching English, How To.... by Raymond Stopper

Part Three: Writing and Speaking

Chapter 11: The Computer and Writing Instruction. What problems did word processing help to solve in teaching writing? Computers and word processing changed the attitudes of students toward writing, a change that was the most significant I have seen in teaching English in the last thirty-five years. However, any change raises issues and I encountered a number of issues when I introduced word processing to teachers and students in the early 1980s. The most popular computers at that time were Radio Shack, Apple, IBM and Commodore.

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