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Book: Plastic Viking Helmets
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Virtual Adam
Introduction
Do you have green fingers? typing skills considered
Preparing the ground background research
Planting the seeds getting ready to plan
The green shoots a plan
Feeding and watering developing the plan
Weeding working on the first go
Useful tools helpful features in the word processor
Style: individualism in writing
Pests and diseases dangers and problems with word processor writing
The harvested crop an example essay
Style
In replacing handwriting with standardised printing, WPs are hacking away at individual style. I do not wish to compound this, but a couple of conventions of presentation might be useful. Many WP manuals do not give advice about typing, and if you are self taught, like me, you may miss these points:
It is important to leave a space after a comma, and one, two or even three (but be consistent) after a full stop. Never get into an argument about how many it should be; some people are very passionate about this. Remember, other sentence ending punctuation (question marks and what have you) should be treated as full stops in this respect.
Type numbers less than one hundred in words, not digits.
It is not fashionable to indent the first word of a paragraph. The normal alternative is to leave a blank line between paragraphs.