In the wake of my reading the Pew Internet and American Life study called "Writing, Technology, and Teens" (press release is here; PDF of the whole report is here), I've been thinking about what kind of online tools could help students write. I've learned about a few -- I'm trying to decide if it makes sense to tell students about them.
Dr. Paper: not free and originally developed for high school students, supposedly formats APA style correctly
Paper Calendar: free, will make a schedule for your paper-writing tasks
Late Night Writer: free, will ask questions to take you from topic to thesis to supporting paragraphs to finished (if disjointed) essay
yWriter4: free, writes a novel for/with you
Google Docs: free, create, collaborate, share documents online (I'm thinking of using this for class)
Buzzword: free (for now?), like Google Docs but an Adobe product
More to come, perhaps.
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