It not only asks a student topic-specific questions but answers them as well. Pineapple claims that this software is also used by many students to organize class notes, even those taken from chaotically disorganized lecturers. Although most students use it to access the campus library or specialized information sources, a few students have reported remarkably efficient results with Term Papers, Inc., an obscure database not on any of the lists supplied to this reviewer by college and community libraries. This relatively cheap program is reputed to have been developed from software released by the CIA into public domain. Adapted by Tinselware to the purposes of higher education, it can load an existing textfile from any disk to the student's disk, erase the original file title and provide a new one, and then slightly rearrange word order throughout.
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In a process familiar to all, the student then attempts the appropriate revision. The handwriting, or clawwriting is already on the wall. The student's work emerges, replete with grade, a moment later. It would seem, then, that in the very near future the work of the writing teacher is going to become fully automated and thus markedly easier. Some administrators speculate, in fact, that it may disappear altogether.