COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING

Computer Assisted Writing

What is Computer Assisted Writing?

On the second blog, I am going to share with you all about some information about computer assisted writing. According to F:\Computer-Assisted Instruction and Writing.mht, computer assisted writing or “Computer-assisted instruction” (CAI) refers to instruction or remediation presented on a computer. Many educational computer programs are available online and from computer stores and textbook companies. They helps o improve the student’s writing in many ways. After defining computer assisted writing, we know that computer assisted writing is a tool which enables us to write in an effective ways.

Computer Assisted Activity

First of all, I am going to share with you about the computer assisted writing activity. Actually, there are many types of computer assisted writing activity and each of them holds its own purposes and functions. In order to discuss further, I am going to show you not only one but two examples of computer assisted writing activity. One of the computer assisted writing activity is the Compupoem. When you refer to the name, you may guess that this activity should relate with poem. That’s it, you are right. But how does this writing activity help the students on their writing especially on writing poem? Maybe you should refer to this website for more information. Please refer http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8274%28198202%2971%3A2%3C96%3AEMCACW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage. This is one of the computer assisted writing activity provide by Stephen Marcus and I find it useful.

 

The next computer assisted writing activity I am going to share you is one of those we used to deal with especially in students life when writing essays. You probably need this program known as Computer Program for Writing. The computer programs for writing help students by developing ideas, organizing, outlining, and brainstorming. In short, I am going to go on briefly about the functions of the computer program for writing:

1.     Word prediction

2.    Speech-to-text

3.    Text-to-speech

4.    Spell-checker

5.    Thesaurus

These are the basic functions offer by the computer program for writing. Probably, it will satisfy the demand of students and teachers now because this program or activity really helps to guide a person through an effective way of writing an essay. In short, I can say that it is the best tools for students who find handwriting tiring. There are many students who face difficulties with all the necessity for the writing process. They usually have trouble organizing their thoughts and express them on the paper. Their handwriting must be neat enough and their spelling and grammar correct enough in order to convey their message. In this area, many students find the writing task difficult. For more information about computer assisted writing program, you can refer to this website below:

http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/computeraided_writing.asp 

The software         

Actually, there are many computer assisted writing software available in the store worldwide. This computer assisted writing software really satisfies the demand of its consumers because they do help a lot in problem solving especially in writing essays. In order to get a reliable and effective software, I had few computer software to share with you. This software generally containing all of the basics functions that you need to write your essays including Grammar Checker, Contextual Spell Checker, Patented Text Enrichment, Comprehensive Dictionary and Thesaurus, Letter and Document Templates and Instant Error Notification. These are the software recommended:

1.     Read and Write Gold v8.0

2.    White Smoke – The General Writing Version

3.    Stylewriter

4.    textHELP

The URL         

Apart from recommend you to buy the software, there is another alternative that helps you to write a good assay. There are URLs which host computer assisted writing activity. Of course you can use these URLs to search for online activities which not only save time but save energy and save money as well. These are the best URLs I recommend to you all:

1. http://www.manythings.org/casp/
2. http://www.worldwidewriting.com/