Category: Academic Writing Software

Manage citation for your book with Scrivener and Zotero

If you’re writing a non-fiction book that uses lots of quotes from sources on the Internet, managing all the quotes can be a big and time-consuming task. This post from Jstor, a website on academic writing, shows you how to manage sources that you quote for your book. It gives a step by step instructions…

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Overleaf, online collaborative scientific paper writing software

Overleaf is a cloud-based software for scientific paper writing and research. The online software, according to WriteLaTeX, a company behind the software, is being used by more than 1,000 universities and institutions. Major features of Overleaf are: – online collaborative rich text editing – integrated and streamlined publishing – editorial and review in the cloud….

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Best reading and writing software for academics

Alex Fink wrote a post on reading and writing software for Tilt, a blog for center for teaching and learning at the University of Minnesota. The post deals with the topic of connecting, accessing, and producing information and what software to use in the process. In a nutshell, it is a short paper about software to…

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9 essential writing software for academic work on Mac

Aleh Cherp, a professor of the Central European University, wrote a post that covers 9 writing software for academic work on Mac and also other software. The writing software covered are: NValt Evernote Ulysses OmniOutliner Byword Scrivener Pages Microsoft Word for Mac Papers His website is an interesting read for academics using Mac.

Software for Dissertation Writers

The Writing Center of the University of Pittsburgh has posted a summary on software and books that are useful for writers of academic essays. The software covered are: Evernote Scrivener Xmind Freedom Self Control Rescue Time Focus Time Write or Die  750 Words