When you write, you are moving ideas from your head into or onto a medium that allows you to see them any time you like. Plus, they will remain there, stored, forever. Also, storing information digitally makes the information malleable for later editing and manipulation as your ideas change. How computers change the writing process Computers make it easier to get ideas recorded outside of your head. Computers make it easier to edit, change, and work with ideas.
Computers make it easier to publish or share ideas.
Recording information Keyboarding, even hunting and pecking, eliminates the hand-encoding process that many dyslexics and all dysgraphics find so hard. Being able to make perfectly formed letters by hitting a key is a lot easier than struggling to write by hand. Touch typing, when mastered, can be a great help for many people with learning disabilities. When you touch type, you're remembering not the spelling of a word, but a kinesthetic sequence. My spelling has improved tremendously as I've written more and as my touch typing has improved.