Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Autocorrect: Advantagesand Disadvantages

Autocorrect is a tool used in cell phones, email providers, word documents, and search engines. Autocorrect changes words it doesn't recognize as English and changes the word based on the letter combination.

Advantages:
  • Helps to correct to sound professional
  • Teaches the correct spelling of commonly miss spelled words
  • correct famous names
  • adds correct puncuation
  • checks for sentence fragments
Disadvantages
  • miss spells words
  • doesn't allow for slang if outdated
  • doesn't recognize names
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  • changes words

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