Ridling, Zaine. “TABLE OF CONTENTS.” Word Processor Review — DonationCoder.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2014.

Zaine Ridling, a well-versed and educated author of documents on word processors, has written for the Word Processor Roundup and runs the Great Software list. Ridling’s article is more informative than anything and seeks to outline and review the new 2007 Microsoft Word interface. The intended audience of the article is students, educators, researchers, and writers and Ridling gives specific tips to each demographic. Throughout the article Ridling inserts his own view into an overview of Microsoft Word’s features and thus presents a slant towards not using Microsoft Word if you are a student, researcher, scholar, or writer.

The biggest strength of this article was its ability to go over so many of the key features of Word. As someone who is working on creating a new word processor, this is helpful to me because it outlines what features currently exists and where they fall short. I also think that since the article is written in a way that the everyday person can understand, the audience becomes wider and broader. I though the weakness of the article was how it attempted to cover so many different word processors in the same article. Ridling tried to go in depth about many word processors, but in the end the reader was left confused or muddled with a wide array of information. The information in this article is very relevant and helps my research because it presents us with many different features of word processors and goes through the pros and cons.nowman