Advice for students: Homework-eating dogs, and how to avoid them – lifehack.org

“And then, when I tried to print my essay, it disappeared!” The technology of word-processing has made available a rich array of explanations, fictional and non-fictional, for students in difficulty with deadlines. Most teachers and professors have grown tired of these explanations, so that even a genuine one is likely to ring false. Truly, the computer has become the high-tech version of the dog that ate the homework. Here are four ways to avoid problems when you’re writing with a computer: