It is set and marked by computer. And startlingly easy. But there's a concern that young people access information on the Internet or CD-ROM and present it back as homework without any internal processing.
Teachers call it click-print.
Late Christmas shoppers were able to buy a biography of John Major that was delivered to Bloomsbury on Monday and published by Friday. This astonishing feat could only be achieved through a happy triumvirate of author, publisher and enhanced word-processor. An instant book with little need for writing. Only an exceptional lure brings the two together in a flow of automatic text arranging. Computer programs now aim to help those in business produce good, structured and accurate writing.