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1. #29795 An Almost Final Farewell to Desktop Word Processing The era of desktop publishing is over, and I must bid Microsoft Word and several other desktop applications good-bye. In case you think I'm singling out Microsoft, it's not just MS Word, but also OpenOffice, GoogleOffice, or any application that makes what we used to call 'documents'. Nowadays, I'm simply using a wiki for collaborative information sharing and a blog for online reporting. Albing, Bill. Carolina Communique (2007). Articles>Word Processing>Online>Wikis 2. #19933 Green Squiggly Lines: Evaluating Student Writing in Computer-Mediated Environments We have a theory, a trace, a prediction of what will happen in the influence that word processors have had on student writing. By outlining a history of word processors in writing pedagogy and assessment (a vast increase in studies of and pedagogies advocating revision occurred in the 1980s), 'Green Squiglly Lines' sketches the potential impact of electronic portfolios on writing assessment. How will the publication--the turning of academic essays into (pre)professional documents [literally portfolios in the graphic artist sense of the word]--change writing assessment in American higher education? Whithaus, Carl. Academic.Writing (2003). Articles>Editing>Online>Word Processing
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