Writing tools

The Blank Page Drafting Revising (and revising…and revising…) Presentation

Look for: mind mapping, speech to text

Look for: word prediction, speech to text, references

Look for: mechanics, text to speechLook for: reference management, formatting, templates

Some SmartArt in Office 2007 FreeMind XMind Inspiration Mindomo Mindmeister Places to look:

Wikipedia: List of concept mapping software

Limited capability in Word Sphinx (Geeky!) Dragon Naturally Speaking ($79.95 - $179)* MacSpeech Dictate ($169-$199)* SpeakQ ($360)

*low end of scale is student-only pricing from AcademicSuperstore.com

Talking Word Processor LetMeType OpenOffice

Text Expander (Mac) $29.95 Phrase Express Texter (a bit geeky)

Online dictionaries Thesauri

◦ FreeThesaurus◦ Visual Thesaurus (short free trial, then $2.95/mo

or $39.95) Multiple-purpose

◦ Word (& other software) built-ins◦ Lingoes◦ The Sage◦ WordWeb◦ StarDict

Work that word processor!◦ Spell check◦ Grammar check◦ Find & replace

Spell checkers◦ Jspell multilingual◦ ieSpell for online writing

Style checkers◦ The Editor◦ WordDog

Talking Word Processor Orato DSpeech Natural Reader ReadPlease Kurzweil

BibMe Son of Citation Machine Zotero Reference management software

pages on Wikipedia

Hide/show formatting Use styles! Save templates to save time

Why use a template?◦ Speed◦ Consistency

Creating your own templates◦ Save as .dot (Microsoft Word)◦ File, New select template◦ Must save under new name

Microsoft templates

Sharing & collaboration◦ Google Docs◦ Zoho◦ Wikis

Publishing◦ Email as a publication◦ Blogging

Performance sharing◦ Podcasts◦ Vlogging