Text writing tools

[Margaret Riel]

Hi All,,

I just edited the section on mindmaps that deals with cloud writing and mapping. 

I learned about some new tools that look promising.  I will be working on a blog after 

I work with all of them a bit more, but on the surface they look interesting.  I wonder if they 

might have helped as you were editing your papers.  I put a paper that I thought

was ready to submit to a journal and it came back flabby... so I am taking another 

look at it before I submit it using the advice as a guide. 

The tools give you another way to view your work.  And for those that are fond of 

wordle, you might want to Try Tagxedo for more customized word clouds. 

 the site:

Text Tools

• Zoho has a collection of tools that include Zoho writer (James and Jaime, Cadre 11)
• Make any pdf file into a page turning newsletter for publishing on the web with ISSUU
• To trim unnecessary works from your text try Writer’s diet by Helen Sword.
• Condense your report by using Text Compactor, a free word summariser.

Cloud Editing and Tagging

• Google Drive has Word processing, spreadsheet and data collecting coud based files http://drive.google.com]
• To share files and work in the cloud, dropbox is the most common choice
• The best known cloud taggging tool is wordle which creates a visual graphic of word frequencies
• Try Tagxedo for more customized word clouds. Use a thousand words to make a picture see gallery.

Also take a look at the tool list.... if there are tools that no longer are great example, feel

free to delete or replace with what you think is really cool. 

It should be a living document. 

Cheers to all!

Margaret

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