What are the effects of the computer on the quality of your writing?

Answer 1

Great Affect. Computer can correct my Spelling and Grammatical mistake. Its help me not to do the wrong spelling and grammatical mistake again. Its also increase my typing speed and save time.

Answer 2

Me, personally:
It saves a lot of time in terms of re-writing and revising. If you're typing or hand-writing something, you have to completely start over to correct anything other than a small error.

It also helps that you can save different versions of something you write, so you can compare them later and then choose which really sounds best. You could do this with sections or whole pieces without a computer, of course, but then you'd have to re-write if you wanted to incorporate one version of a section into another version of a larger whole.

Being able to choose words and then choose others that might work better to automatically and cleanly replace them goes a long way to writing that is easier to read and probably of better quality. The only thing I might think could suffer is poetry or creative writing, because sometimes you doubt what you've written and simply delete, when you really shouldn't. If you were using ink and paper, you could go fish that out of the trash bin or read through your cross-out lines, but if you delete it off the page of the program you're using, it's gone forever.

I also feel like the computer cuts off a bit of the true connection to the written word, because the screen is more of an animated light play than just words. It's difficult to really concentrate on writing as much as you might have before computers because it creates a greater distance between your thought and the output---or at least more steps between them.

Others:
I think it can be dangerous to some who rely on computer programs to check spelling and grammar, but it probably does help them in many circumstances. (For someone who already spells and punctuates well, you're far more likely to make typos on a computer---or typewriter---which is why they're called "typos". When you hand-write, you don't make typographical errors, only real ones.)

I also think that the wide availability of research sources probably helps a lot of people write research pieces more easily, but again, there's a danger there: I think people might be more likely to plagiarize these days, perhaps without even completely realizing it.

Answer 3

I find I've got to be more disciplined than if I write straight to paper. With paper, it comes out & that's it, until it gets transcribed; with the computer, I'm more inclined to revise at regular intervals, which slows everything down. Hence, I have to be disciplined enough to get on with the writing and then revise.

Overall quality - I think I'm much better now I use a PC.

Answer 4

Over the years it has made me a better writer.

Answer 5

presentation?
its doesnt improve but doesnt deteriearate

spelling?
if you reliy on a spell checker then u dont bother thinking about how 2 spell things