Educators today is more and more often hard to say that computer literacy is absolutely necessary for college students. Many even argue that each incoming freshman should have permanent access to his or her own microcomputer. What advantages do computers offer the college student? Any student who has used a word processor will now one compelling reason to use a computer: to write papers. Although not all students feel comfortable composing on a word delete just by pressing a few keys, thus eliminating the need to rewrite or retype. Furthermore, since the revision process is fewer burdens some, students are more likely to revise as often as is necessary to end up with the best paper possible. For these reasons, many freshman English courses require the use of a word processor. Science students take advantage of computers in many ways. Using computer graphic capabilities, for example, botany students can represent and analyze different plant growth patterns. Medical students can learn to interpret computerized images of internal body structures. Physics students can complete complex calculations far more quickly than they could without the use of a computer. Similarly, business and accounting students find that computer spreadsheet programs are all but indispensable to many aspects of their work, while students pursuing careers in graphic arts, marketing, and public relations find that knowledge of computer graphics is important. Education majors learn to develop grading systems suing computers, which social science students use computers for analyzing and graphically displaying their research results. It is no wonder, then, that educators support the purchase and use of computers by students. A versatile tool, the computer can help students learn. And that is, after all, the reason for going to college. The writer's chief purpose in writing this passage is to______.