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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