Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Writing & Research Tools
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Some helpful advice on academic publishing for new academics. From Dissertation to Book – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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I don’t write fiction, but tips on writing in general are always useful to accumulate. Here are a collection of tips from a bunch of people who have learnt them the hard way. Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk Ten rules for writing fiction(part two) | Books | guardian.co.uk
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To add to my mostly Mac OS X based list of writing tools – Bean: An OS X Word Processor. (Oh, and I think I left NeoOffice (based on OpenOffice) off the original list too.)
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A while back I wrote an increasingly long list of (predominantly Mac-based) writing tools – Greenflame · Thinking about writing tools. Fernando has recently written some more on than theme and on one of those tools (Scrivener), including some comments on how it helps manage his writing processes. See Fernando’s Desk » Getting It Down…
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A selection of links that intersect around the role of new media in educational environments. Henry Jenkins has an essay (in two parts) that looks at the tension between participatory media and traditional educational models, and in particular emphasises the critical application of the following skill set: Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge…
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AKMA has some gentle reminders about the need for typographical simplicity when selecting typefaces, and has some helpful links to some related typeface resources. See AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Type Trove.
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Over the years I’ve used lots of different text and word processors to support writing I’ve needed to do: nroff and similar on UNIX systems for writing documentation View on the BBC Microcomputer in the 1980s Something on an Apple II+ which only displayed 40 characters per line WordStar, MS Word and WordPerfect under MS-DOS…
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Jo pointed to this article about Google Books. Food for thought. American Historical Association Blog: Google Books: What’s Not to Like?
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Does anyone know if Sente from Third Street Software is any good for managing bibliographic data and handling citations in word processing documents. I’m currently locked into the MS Word/Endnote system, but I wouldn’t mind having the option to try out Mellel for academic writing (which Sente supports as well as Word).
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I picked it up here at Faith and Theology: Footnotes or endnotes? but it started here at Frankly, Mr Shankly: TF Torrance, footnotes and endnotes. Then it evolved to here to Aaron Ghiloni’s poll pointed to by Faith and Theology: The footnote controversy. At the end of the day – “Endnotes – just say no!”