Bread-Bakers v102.n038.19

Could some of you long time shapers & bakers out there please give us who 
are new at it a tutorial on the proper methods of "shaping the dough into a 
loaf".  Many of my bread machine recipes call for the dough to be made by 
machine and then removed and "shaped into a loaf and placed in a lightly 
greased loaf pan."  I'm sure it can't be as easy as just patting it into a 
loaf shape and plopping it into the pan.  Or is it?

Many thanks.
Diane in KY