How to Copy Text When Critiquing
By Peggy Carpenter Harwood
HOW TO COPY TEXT FROM A WRITER'S WORK1. Highlight the text you wish to copy.
2. Then go up to your AOL tool bar and drag down the "Edit" menu to "Copy." Then let up on the mouse.
3. Next click on "Post Reply."
4. When the Reply sheet comes up on the screen, put your cursor on the page where you want the copied text to go.
5. Go up to "Edit" on the AOL tool bar again and drag down to "Paste."
6. The copied text should be now on the rough typed page where you are in the process of typing your critique.
7. Sometimes instead of getting the words I copied a web address will be copied. This rarely happens, but if it does I just delete it and start the whole process over again.
HOW TO "SET OFF" QUOTED TEXT ON THE TYPED ROUGH CRITIQUE:
If you want to set off your copied text in your critique it is also easy to do.
1. Highlight the text which you want to set off on the rough draft of the critique page.
2. Go up to "Quote" on the critique tool bar and click on it.
3. Now a kind of bracket at the beginning of the text and another at the end of the text will appear.
4. Then I would type more of the critique until I wanted to copy something else.
5. If I did remember something else I wanted to quote, I would hit the "Back-page" arror on the AOL tool bar.
6. Then I would start by highlighting the new piece of text as I did the first go round.
7. Then I would click on "copy" under the "Edit" menu on my AOL toolbar.
8. Then I would click on the "Forward-page" arror on the AOL tool bar.
9. Now I should have the critique I was typing on the screen. I would place the cursor where I wanted the new text and then drag down the "Edit" menu to "Paste."
10. Now if I wanted this new section which I just pasted set off as a quote, I would highlight it and then click on "Quote" on the top of the critique reply page.
11. Again backets would be set on either end of the quote.
12. When I had finished the critique, I would click on "Preview" and see how things worked.
13. One caution, if you accidently delete any of the brackets the text will not be set off, so be careful about that.
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