There are so many tools that will help students with the writing process. Some of these tools help organize research while others help students organize their thoughts or locate grammatical errors.
Resouces and Tools
Grammarly– Detect spelling, context, and grammatical errors.
EasyBib– Generate citations and see the credibility of sites you are using.
Diigo– Collect, organize and annotate resouces. Create an outline using the resources you have gathered.
Cite This for Me– Automatically create citations in the most popular citation styles.
Highlight Tool– This is an add-on for Google Docs that can be used to organize essays, categorize facts, and emphasize different sections of a document.
Tips and Ideas
If your students are writing in Google Docs, why not have them engage in some peer revision? Students can either leave comments or make suggestions using features that already exist in Google Docs.
The comments feature is a great place for teachers to leave feedback for students as well. Instead of waiting until a student is finished with a long project like a research paper, you can begin leaving comments right away so students can fix errors before they submit their final draft.
Create voice comments for using the Talk and Comment extension. This is a great way for students to provide feedback to their peers as well as teachers to provide feedback to students.
Read previous posts about Diigo and other citation tools.
