Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Writing & Research Tools
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A while back I wrote about some analogue and digital tools for writing (Digital writing – Part 1). Today, I’m going to look at creating a platform for writing using some of those and other tools. It all starts with an oldish (2014) laptop that is no longer being used.
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Writing is not natural for me. School tasks such as writing about your holidays or knocking out different kinds of essays were like pulling teeth; each word dragged kicking and screaming onto the page. Partly, that was because I never felt happy with the quality of my handwriting, but mostly because I like thinking about…
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Laura Moss writes a really helpful article on writing articles for academic journals and what things you can do to improve the overall experience for yourself, the editor(s), and the peer-reviewers. My advice here is aimed at scholars of all levels and not just emerging ones. We all need to work on finding optimal ways…
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James McGrath (ReligionProf) linked (via Facebook) through to this helpful guide to pitching a book to editors at a conference. Not just for Classical Studies. Blog: A Guide to Pitching Your Book at a Conference | Society for Classical Studies Some other sites with similar, helpful advice include: How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at…
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So EndNote X4, which has served me faithfully for many, many years, didn’t make it through the upgrade from Mountain Lion to El Capitan on the MacBook. So time to try out the new version of Endnote as well as Papers, Bookends and Mendeley. Will need something that plays nicely with Scrivener and Word 2011…
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A really useful set of tips for beginning to use Scrivener for academic writing. I’m adding it to my Writing and Research Tools collection – which already has some Scrivener material in it. Bibliographic software integration still remains somewhat of a kludge – I normally use EndNote with the EndNote codes in my footnotes (e.g.…
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I use Scrivener to write with. I love most things about it, but there are a few things that I either don’t like or haven’t been able to figure out yet. This blog looks like it will be helpful for the latter. Here’s an example about creating distraction free writing space: The Omm of Scrivener.
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One of my tasks for getting the blog back up and going is to look at how software for the Mac, Windows and iOS has progressed over the past few years. I like using a client to write blog posts, rather than sitting in the WordPress editor in the web browser. It allows me to…
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With more students using web-based/cloud-based software to write their work up in, this looks like a useful addition for Google Docs – See EasyBib Bibliography Creator – Google Docs add-on. PaperPile does something similar but it isn’t free, RefWorks (if you have access to that) can sort of fake doing it too.
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Quick, helpful list of instructions for combining the three writing tools. Scrivener, EndNote and Word – Citing References | having words.