Computers across the curriculum: Using Writer's Workbench

✍ Scribed by Muriel Harris; Madelon Cheek

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 332 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-4615
• DOI: 10.1016/s8755-4615(84)80003-1

✦ Synopsis

This draft, too, was loaded onto the disk, printed, then brought to conference again. The text was far more successful both in communication of meaning and in organizaton of material, Satisfied, Michael moved on to his subsequent concerns. This refinement of text continued through half a dozen more drafts on the word processor and several more conferences with the teacher. Michael next shifted to sentence-level revisions. Every sentence needed to serve the purpose of elaborating his ideas, and each sentence was reread and often revised on the computer with this necessity in mind.

In still later drafts, Michael was pleased with content and organization of his piece and became an editor. Punctuation, spelling, capitalization and other editorial concerns were now the focus of his efforts on the word processor. A composition handbook, dictionary and thesaurus helped him here, as well as other editing strategies: reading aloud, listening for the punctuation in his voice, sounding out words.