Instead of using the computer as a fancy typewriter, regular word processing software can help with prewriting and postwriting. Students can make lists of ideas and drag-and-drop (move with the mouse) them to put them in groups or in some order. Important ideas can be highlighted, made bigger, or even color coded. Then they can be put into an outline or mind maps. From there it is easy to expand the ideas into sentences without having to type the original ideas again. A few more clicks and the list of sentences become a paragraph. The postwriting aids include grammar and punctuation checkers which can be modified by the teacher to catch the mistakes focused on in the lesson. Spell checkers offer lists of alternatives for the students to correct words not found in the dictionary. Then the paragraph can be made beautiful with all kinds of different typesets and formatting.