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The nicest features can cause problems!. Before you begin: Determine the purpose of your paper. Determine the audience you are writing for. Develop the thesis of your paper. Then: Brainstorm : List all the ideas that you want to include in your paper.
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The nicest features can cause problems!
Before you begin: • Determine the purpose of your paper. • Determine the audience you are writing for. • Develop the thesis of your paper. • Then: • Brainstorm: List all the ideas that you want to include in your paper. • Organize : Group related ideas together. • Order : Arrange material in subsections from general to specific or from abstract to concrete. • Label : Create main and sub headings.
Word processor's ability to facilitate small changes! • Compose when they need to be planning, edit when they need to be revising.
Computer memory is amazing! • “Paste” instead of retyping!
a colloid of conflicting styles: one section was written by a psychologist with a propensity for theoretical language, another by a computer programmer concerned mainly with the technical characteristics of machinery, another by a manager recording the history of the project + In the midst of the sections, there are insertions of a few sentences by the author in his own style. schizophrenic prose
A beautiful print-out of perfectly-formatted clean copy! Confuse clean copy with completed copy and feel finished long before there is a reason to Messy neatness!
New “banking ” concept Old good learning habits that are conducive to the development of the ability and capability of students to pursue appropriate and complementary social and achievement goals .