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Editor is Microsoft's writing assistant to help you refine and enhance your writing. Editor detects your spelling and grammar mistakes and checks your writing style and provides suggestions for improvement. 

With school closures in effect due to the current pandemic, parents are spending much more time helping their house-bound kids with their home schooling. There are several digital resources parents can use to help with their kid's distance learning, from video conferencing tools to educational mobile apps. In today's post we are re-sharing with you this excellent graphic organizer that is ideal for reading and writing activities.

Word Webs is a free site that generates connected webs based on the words you enter and select. Generate a web simply head to the site and enter a word. A web of six related words will be generated on the screen. Click on any of those six words to have another connected web created.

Why pay full price for Microsoft Word when there’s an absolute bevy of great free word processors out there that can do the job just as well? If you’re a student or an educator working on a machine where a Microsoft Word subscription hasn’t been provided for you, you’ve likely been stuck pondering whether you’ll be forced to shell out for the full Word program in time.

Fear not! As said before, there are a select handful of free word processors out there that match Microsoft Word in many respects and surpass it in others. We’ve sifted through every word processor we could think of and narrowed them down for our definitive list of the 4 Best Free Word Processors For 2020.

29 tools to help with your content writing Use a selection of these tools to boost the quality of the content you write Writing relevant and user-friendly content is harder than it seems. You need.

Writing relevant and user-friendly content is harder than it seems. You need to ensure that your text reads clearly and with no mistakes in order to maximize the impact of your message. It’s a real balancing act, which is why a range of content writing tools have been developed to ease your writing journey. Here are 29 of the best online content writing tools to help with all manner of different writing challenges, such as grammar, spelling, writing for SEO and copy editing.

Scrible is a very good productivity tool every research student should have. It provides you with various tools and features that enable you to curate online content, bookmark websites, store files, annotate and share webpages and PDFs. You can use Scrible to annotate content on a webpage or PDF. 

Analyzing your own writing with a critical eye can be hard to do. I know, I try to do it every day and I still miss things that a fresh set of eyes quickly picks up. Like me, students often struggle to critically analyze their own writing. Peer editing is one solution to that problem. Another solution is to use an online writing checker the one that JoeZoo offers as a Google Docs Add-on. 

Since the outbreak of the pandemic several digital platforms and mobile applications started incorporating features designed specifically to support distance learning. We have already featured several of these tools in the past few weeks and today we are sharing with you another useful platform to help you in your remote teaching. The popular BoomWriter tool offers a wide variety of features that allow you to engage students in remote writing activities. It also  provides you with the tools to monitor students' writing in realtime enabling you to provide individualized feedback to each of your students. The process is simple and easy.

Quill is a great educational platform you can use with your students to help them enhance their writing skills. It provides a wide variety of materials designed specifically to help students become better writers. Using Quill is simple and easy. Teachers set up their classrooms in Quill and invite students to join using unique codes. If you use Google Classroom you can import your class with a single click. Once created you can then start using the different services provided by Quill.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL,  which belongs to Purdue University, has a huge online library that features a wide variety of materials covering different writing-related topics such as grammar and mechanics, professional writing,

November brings academic writing month #AcWriMo as researchers commit to making time to write regularly.   MmIT members would like to suggest a range of digital tools and social spaces are used to encourage other writers and share good practice.  Many of these have applicability beyond academic writing so we hope that you will find them useful.

Many teachers and students use Google Chrome, and it’s easy to customize with these extensions that really benefit students.

Starting a new school year means new students, new supplies, a newly cleaned and organized classroom—and new technology tools for students. After I spend some time getting to know my students each year, I typically take a day to add several extensions to their Google Chrome browser accounts—my students spend most of their computer time using that browser.

Today the importance of educational technology goes beyond the use of instructional aids because of the ubiquity and usefulness of technology in everyday life. Now more than ever, there is a need to for learners to be proficient at using technology in order to adapt to this rapidly digitizing world.

When it comes to contextual grammatical errors, built-in spell checkers wont probably be of much help. Detecting grammatical mistakes entails a deep analysis of the syntactic structures making up a piece of text and anlying them in the light of the local context (co-text) in which they figure. Only few tools are equipped with the required algorithm to detect syntactic deviations in writing.

In today's post we are sharing with you this collection of some excellent guides to help you with the teaching of writing and help your students improve their writing style. The collection comprises several classic titles and seminal works as recommended by Paul Silvia in his  popular book ‘How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing”.