Research Writing Tools

Writing assignment? Try these tools.

created by Sheri Lenzo

Information Sources on the Web:

1 Research

Brainstorm - • Write your ideas • Expand them with details and information from your research.

3 Brainstorm & Organize

Autosummarize Word has a tool that will highlight the main points in your research article.

To see how click on there.

World Book (Log-in: opesd, password: opesd)

• Ask kids

2 Get the Key Points

Oak Park District 97 Research Page

Try putting your ideas down quickly - in a web. You can use paper or the computer. This was made in Inspiration, which is on all computers in district 97.

Webspiration is an online tool - now available free.

Ready to Write Turn your ideas into descriptive sentences & paragraphs. This will give you a rough draft.

4 Write & Edit

Edit * Use spell check * Grammer check (in Word underlined green) * Expand your words - use the Thesaurus in Word * Listen (Text-to-Speech) - does it sound good & make sense?

For more information about Text-to-Speech Click here

• Oak Park Public Library Research Tools