Writing Support
Resources to help you become the best writer you can be.
BibMe
Price: Free with an upgrade option for $9.95/month
BibMe makes the process of sourcing your work much less painful. It will help create citations for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. The paid version also checks for unintentional plagiarism and missing citations.
bubbl.us
Price: Free with an option for premium at $6/month
Bubbl.us is a tool to use to get your ideas flowing. This virtual mind map helps you brainstorm how your essay will take shape.
Before you begin writing, visit Bubbl.us to make a free map of your thoughts. It helps you structure your big ideas, add supporting details, and eliminate non-essential information before you dive into the actual writing of your paper.
You can also share your map and use it to collaborate in group projects whenever you need.
Grammarly
Price: Free
Once you've started putting together a draft, you'll need a tool to help you choose your words wisely. OneLook offers free assistance in making your words unique and less repetitive.
OneLook has a dictionary tool that provides many different sources to help you choose the right use of a word. More importantly, it offers an intense thesaurus and reverse dictionary that can help you create colorful and exciting language in your essays.
ProWritingAid
Price: $70 per year
ProWritingAid markets itself as a "grammar checker, a style editor, and a writing mentor all in one package." This site will provide you with basic editing, but also (for a fee) help with style issues and repetitive mistakes.
For college students, the plagiarism check feature is a nice addition to make sure the words you are choosing are strictly your own.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Resource for documentation/citation and research writing.
Readable
Price: Options for $4-$24 per month, depending on desired features
If you've ever wondered what grade-level your writing is, Readable will let you know. This site (which has a limited, but helpful free version) will let you know the readability of your text along with offering help with spelling and grammar and giving you lots of data about your text (syllables in words, number of adverbs, and more).
Readable is the perfect tool for decoding your writing and help you make sure your writing is suitable for your audience.
StayFocused
Price: Free
StayFocusd is an add-on extension that helps you to...well, stay focused. Although it might not directly affect your writing skills, it may very well help you get your paper completed on-time.
This extension increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting sites. Once you've wasted your allotted amount of time, those sites are blocked, so you are forced to get back to work and get your writing done.
Improving your writing takes more than just checking for spelling and grammar mistakes. It means analyzing your essay
Improving your writing takes more than just checking for spelling and grammar mistakes. It means analyzing your essay's readability and properly sourcing your work.
Writing an essay requires time, creativity, and concentration, but it also requires help. Using online writing tools to assist your writing process will take much of the guesswork and confusion out of the way for you.
Word Counter
Price: Free
Every student needs to be aware of the length of their writing. This easy-to-use online tool will count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and pages in real-time, along with spelling and grammar checking.
You can type directly in the site or you can simply copy and paste your paper into the tool to make sure you are within your assignment's guidelines.
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Resources have been compiled from https://wordcounter.io/blog/top-writing-tools-all-college-students-should-use