Entering the information into a
word processor and using the "search" function to find it later is probably easier.
Next, I open my Windows
word processor. When I need to consult MS Bookshelf, I can reduce the size of the
word processor document screen, then click on the MS Bookshelf icon to open its window and access its resources.
The central feature of most of these systems is the
word processor. Microsoft (Windows Write), Software Publishing Corporation (Professional Write), Symatec (Q&A), Volkswriter, Dac, and WordPerfect all have executive packages.
Unlike the
word processor packages which can be mastered in a few hours, this package, because of its depth and its peculiar idiosyncracies becomes very difficult to use as it operates in a completely different manner.
Daiute (1986) reported that average eighth-grade students corrected more mechanical errors with a
word processor than with pen and paper, but made few substantive changes within the text.
This introduces sticky problems such as the level of security necessary and feasible for a
word processor used to write the unclassified version of a classified report.
A good way to cause heartbeat irregularity in an information systems manager is to suggest casually that
word processor XYZ is not compatible with the system just installed.
I use an Apple II Plus microcomputer and the Apple-writer II
word processor (which turns the computer into a typewriter with a memory) to write and edit all my BASIC programs.
Instead of "teacher telling" statements such as "The branches of the Federal Government are the executive, legislative and judicial," or "Your
word processor inserted the new sentence in the wrong place because you didn't move your cursor," teachers should try student-centered questions such as "What are the branches of the Federal Government?" or "Why didn't your new sentence get inserted in the right place?" The teacher's role is to guide and coach students, and not to think for them.
For dictating text into a word processing program, the products available at the local computer store are sufficient since the
word processor does not have to shift frequently between accepting data and interpreting program commands.
Navajo
Word Processor 3.1 will soon hit shelves at the college bookstore, offering a full-featured
word processor with four new Navajo fonts, an English-to-Navajo dictionary and a Navajo-to-English dictionary.
The program takes exams that are produced via a
word processor and shuffles the questions and answers (for multiple-choice exams).