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Word processors: drafting, crafting, or presentation tools? Students’ use of computers for writing in two primary schools

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set 2001: no. 2
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Sue McDowall and Sally Boyd

This article outlines the implications for teachers of the findings from a comparative study of students’ editing skills and processes when using word processors and pencils to write. An overview of the editing skills that students can be expected to have at three different year levels is presented.

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SET2001_2_004 McDowall and Boyd, Word processors:drafting,crafting or presentation tools? Set, 2001 $15.00