Learning by doing 1 ppt

HOW TO STUDY

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one end and moon at the other, for lightening and darkening your

screen.) Everything you type will still register; you just won’t be

seeing it. Try it. Remember to continue to press SAVE as you’re typ￾ing. When you feel calmer, turn the screen back on. You may find

you wrote more than usual. Remember to keep writing until you’ve

answered your questions, created clear pictures, and presented

your thoughts in an order that makes sense to you. Save correcting

for last! (You may want to take a sneak-peek at Chapter 19, Prepar￾ing for Essay Tests, for more suggestions on writing and editing.)

E-Mail

Some people become so attached to sending and receiving e-mail

messages, they refer to “regular” letters as being “snail-mail.” Even people

who say they don’t like to write enjoy sending e-mail messages.

What’s tricky is to make sure you have the exact e-mail address of the

person you’re sending a message to. Make sure each letter, number, and

symbol is accurate. It’s important, too, to use the same kind of spacing,

or lack of spacing! The computer does what you tell it to. Exactly. Every

punctuation mark, every space, each letter needs to be in the same precise

order of the person’s e-mail address.

What’s easy is that to answer someone’s e-mail, you click onto REPLY.

Then, simply confirm that it’s going to the person who sent you a

message. In addition, you can print a copy, and the initial message can be

repeated in your reply.

Some schools, libraries, and offices offer free courses for students and

employees to learn how to use computers. Check it out!

The Internet

The Internet is a gigantic network that behaves something like telephone

lines. Anyone with an Internet link can click on to a source such as an

online library. There is so much information available on the Internet—

even translations of documents that previously were very difficult to

obtain—that some libraries are focussing on Internet collections for

library-users to use.