Ipad For Writing Essays

[Cortney Voegele]

Ive been using Essayist for years as for a while I only had an iPad as my main driver yet had to write papers for school and this was the only applicaiton that allowed me to do so on the iPad while not only maintaining all APA formatting requirements but making it even easier to cite articles with it's Google Scholar search function. I've also had a couple of times where i'd reach out to their customer support and they were prompt in responding with answers or even potential updates and timing. I highly recommend this app to every student at every level as I used it through my MBA and i'm now using it to complete a doctorate.

I am so glad I found this app because it has come in very handy in writing my essays for college. Essayist is very easy to use and supports many citation styles for all my essay writing needs. Has not let me down yet, thank you!!

It's worth it's weight in gold at least 10X over. I really don't know what I would do without this app. I use it for every single assignment and it's such a time saver and helps make sure everything is correct. I absolutely love it and recommend it to every single person I know in school.

Super computers shoved into thin space beneath extra-tough glass. Digi-Slates. Actual Gibsonian, Stephensonian objects from the future. Throw them in your backpack, a few hundred grams, big screen, cellular high-speed connectivity, all-day battery life. Uhm, yes, please.

What do I do on my computers? I write, edit photographs, design books, record and edit audio, send emails, and research online. I also do a bit of web development, and so from time to time I will sit in Terminal.app, git-ing things, knocking on the sides of servers.

iA Writer, Scrivner, and Ulysses are all full featured, totally serviceable writing apps. You can write anything from a grocery list to a John McPhee-esque non-fiction opus on the iPad. Export as PDFs or EPUBs or .docx files. And because iOS is first and foremost designed for single-context use, the default view is full-screen focus-mode. iCloud as a syncing and storage option has matured and now works reliably. Handing off documents from iPad to iPhone to desktop is often seamless.

Photography ushers in a whole separate class of headaches.8 Unquestionably, the iPad Pro should be the ultimate photography editing machine: A gorgeous high resolution, wide-gamut color screen, perfect multi-touch sensitivity, an A-class chip able to rip through raw files. So where does it fail?

See the work of Mike Matas and Bret Victor for examples of how fluid multi-context interactions can be. Everything in the OS could and should be an active object. Considering the power of these machines, it should all flow like a mini Minority Report workstation.

The iPads of today are a far cry from that oddly rounded, difficult to hold, heavy, low-ish resolution first version of the iPad released in 2010. These new iPad Pros are, from a hardware perspective (whispering with hedged hyperbole), quite possibly the most impressive, certainly most beautiful, consumer computers ever made. And so expectations should be high for what we can do with them. We should expect to do more, more easily.

Craig Mod is a writer and photographer based in Japan. He's the author of the books Things Become Other Things and Kissa by Kissa and is a MacDowell, Ragdale, and VCCA writing fellow. His essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Wired, Aeon, New Scientist, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Morning News, Codex: Journal of Typography, and elsewhere.

One of my earliest memories involves a handwriting struggle. My class had been tasked with writing stories. I love stories. My masterpiece, about accidentally catching a great white shark and putting him into my bedroom aquarium, was the longest in the class.

Today, I am incredibly thankful for every teacher that made me sit at my desk and learn to write by hand. As researchers delve into the science of putting ideas to paper the old-fashioned way, benefits of writing with pen and paper are difficult to ignore. Writing is undeniably linked to learning.

The benefits of writing begin with learning to write. Mastery takes years of tracing Rs and practicing Qs, with young children graduating from print to cursive over time. Though Common Core learning demoted handwriting, research has prompted a comeback. Today, many states require that students be taught cursive, and for good reason.

In one study, children tasked with writing an essay delivered longer, higher-quality essays when writing by hand. (This may, in part, explain my chapter book.) In another study, children were asked to write, trace or type various letters. They were then shown the letters while researchers performed fMRI scans. When shown letters they had written, parts of the brain associated with reading lit up with activity. This response was dampened when traced letters were shown. Letters that had been typed elicited the smallest response.

Writing is much more than just putting pen to paper. It is a dynamic part of our language, inseparable from literacy. Forming letters manually helps children to connect those letters with our alphabet and associate shape with sound. With language being a common vessel of knowledge dissemination, it is no wonder writing plays a crucial role in learning.

Haptics studies, which look at touch as a mode of communication, suggest that visuomotor skills are the reason for this phenomenon. Touch is an important sense, and when we engage across multiple sensations we are better able to tie things together, recall them later and, in short, learn. The feel of a pen being delicately manipulated to produce the small scratches of ink that make up words on paper is far more tactile than fingertips pressed against slabs of plastic.

In a 2014 study, researchers confirmed that students learn better when they take notes on paper. They reason that the slower speed of handwriting forces students to consolidate and reword lectures, helping them to process and retain new information. When students who used laptops were asked to consolidate information in their notetaking, they still used more words and did not reap the benefits of the handwriting group.

It is easy to get comfortable with one form of writing, and most people will admit to having a bias towards either writing by hand or typing. Both have benefits. When words and sentences need to flow in real time, typing at nearly the speed of thought is an amazing convenience.

A laptop has tended to be the tool of choice for students, but, as tablets become more powerful, they are becoming increasingly popular due to their light weight and portability. Tablets are more convenient to carry to class, and iPads are among the most popular because of the practical user experience of iPad OS on a touchscreen device.

The addition of a stylus can make an iPad a great device for sketching and note-taking by hand, and you can also add a keyboard to use an iPad like a laptop for writing essays, for example. The higher end iPads are also perfectly capable of running demanding creative software.

iPad is compatible with many leading apps and software that you may need to use at school, college or university, including Microsoft 365, several Adobe Creative Cloud apps, Canvas LMS, Notability, MATLAB, Google Workspace and more. Just bear in mind that unlike Microsoft Surface tablets, iPads cannot run full desktop software. For more options, see our picks of the best student laptops and the best tablets for students.

Apple does offer a discount for students in full-time education at qualifying institutions. A typical discount could be around $100 of an iPad Pro with a limited period of Apple TV+ or another service. However, it's always worth checking how Apple's own price with the student discount compares to sale prices at third-party retailers, which may actually be cheaper. You can learn about how to apply and how much you could save in our full guide to Apple student discount.

For students who want to draw on an iPad, our top pick would be the Pad Pro 12.9-inch (M2, 2022). It has the largest and brightest screen of any iPad, with the best colour accuracy and contrast. The screen also has the highest refresh rate of any iPad for a super smooth experience with the Apple Pencil 2. It also has more than enough power to run even the most demanding creative software.

That said, the iPad Pro is very expensive, and if you're not doing 3D work or motion design or video editing as well, then you won't need all that power. In that case, we would recommend considering the iPad Air, which still provides excellent performance and a good drawing experience albeit with a slower and somewhat dimmer scream.

The best iPad for students can be an essential buy for anyone studying at school, college or university. Thanks to their slim and light designs, Apple tablets are ideal for carrying around campus, and if you pair them with peripherals, such as a keyboard or stylus, they can provide versatility for research, note-taking and even essay writing and creative work.

Intended as a mid-range option, the iPad Air provides a great balance between power, portability and price. We think it's the best all-rounder, and it supports Apple Pencil 2.

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The M2-chipped iPad Pros is expensive but we found that it has the power to run more demanding creative apps. The 12.9-inch version has a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, which provides a fantastic drawing experience.

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If you don't need to run power-hungry apps, the 10th-gen standard iPad is portable, reasonably priced, and great for browsing and media. It also comes in a range of fun colours.

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We think the compact size of the iPad mini makes it the perfect iPad for note-taking or for using on the move, from lecture theatres to cafes and public transport. It even supports Apple Pencil 2.

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