Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Make a stone pickaxe. Make an iron pickaxe. Learn about gold pickaxes. Craft a diamond pickaxe.

Answer: One of your first priorities for mining will be to make a stone pickaxe. Mine three stone blocks with your wooden pickaxe to get cobblestone, then select the stone pickaxe recipe. On the computer edition, just follow the same recipe for a wooden pickaxe but replace the planks with cobblestone. These are the advantages to a stone pickaxe: Breaks blocks faster than the wooden pickaxe Lasts longer Can mine iron ore (beige-flecked stone) and lapis lazuli ore (dark blue-flecked stone) Iron ore is usually not hard to find with a short mining expedition or visit to a shallow cave. Mine at least thee of these beige-flecked blocks of stone, then turn them into a pickaxe as follows: Craft a furnace our of eight cobblestone. Place the iron ore in the top slot of the furnace, and coal or other fuel in the bottom slot. Wait for the furnace to smelt the ore into iron ingots. Craft an iron pickaxe from three iron ingots and two sticks. An iron pickaxe can mine all types of ore, including gold, redstone, diamond, and emerald ores. This is probably the least useful of the pickaxes, since it's weaker than iron. If you just like the shine, you can mine gold ore, smelt it into ingots, and craft it into a pickaxe. The process is identical to the iron pickaxe instructions above. Gold ore is usually found about 32 blocks below sea level or lower. Diamond is an extremely rare ore only found far below the surface. If you manage to locate this light blue-flecked stone, you can craft an extra-strong, extra-durable diamond pickaxe out of three diamonds and two sticks. There is no need to smelt diamond ore. The diamond will drop as soon as you break the block.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Find a word you want to study. Write the word again, minus 1 letter. Continue eliminating letters. Rebuild the word.

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This method of study will require you to select a word, say it out loud, and then write it down. Say each letter out loud as you write the word to help build familiarity with its spelling. Make sure the word is spelled correctly before moving on. Move down a few lines on your paper and write the word again. Make sure you say the entire word out loud before writing it, speaking out each letter as well. However, you will not write the last letter of the word down for this step. Even though you are not writing the last letter down, you should still say it out loud. Keep moving down to the next line and writing one less letter every time you spell the word. You should still be saying the entire word and each letter aloud, even though you aren't spelling the entire thing. Continue removing letters until you only have the first letter of the word remaining. Fold your paper in half, hiding the original spelling of the word. Start rebuilding the word by saying the whole word and every letter aloud. Write only the first and last letters of the word. Move to a new section on the paper. Say the word and spell it out, adding in the 2 final letters of it. Continue in this way until you have completely spelled the word out again. For example, you would start by writing the word "tower" as 't___r". You would then write "t__er". Add another letter to get "t_wer". Finish the word by writing "tower". Double check that you've spelled the word correctly. Avoid looking at the original spelling of the word while you are rebuilding it. You can also try removing syllables instead of letters.