Category: Writing

Here’s a website full of articles about writing. The article listing shows a huge amount of material on a range of topics. While a lot of the stuff is geared towards fiction, there are some articles that look relevant to researchers. Here’s a few that might be of interest:

6 Ways to Jump-Start Your Writing Day

Technical Writing for the Terrified

 Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue

 Editing and Polishing - How Much is Enough?

I’m a big fan of OpenOffice for academic writing, and I’ve written several articles on it. Here’s a nice simple extension that lets you email a copy of a document to yourself from the “File” menu.

A user over at Ask Metafilter writes…

“I want to be able to write a paper in an outline format, and then expand that outline out into paragraphs. At any time, though, I’d like to be able to go back to the outline “view” of the paper and be able to do things like drag sections around, reorder them, etc.”

There are some ideas in the replies for software that might fit the bill. It looks to me like this is a job for OpenOffice’s outline numbering, as described in this series of posts.