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"PaperToolsPro™, Software to Help Students with Learning Disabilities Write Note Cards and Create Research Papers" in Inclusion Times: Technology for Children & Youth with Disabilities, September/October 2005, published by AssistiveTek, L.L.C.
PaperToolsPro™ was recognized as a significant research tool by:
- Learning & Leading with Technology, April 2005, published by ISTE
- Library Media Connection, April 2005, published by Linworth Publishing
- eSchoolNews , May 2005
- macCompanion which gave it a five-star rating in its May 2005 issue.
Robert Pritchett, editor of macCompanion wrote, “I wished I had PaperToolsPro when I was working on my Masters.” Click here to see the review.
- MacFormat, Issue 170, Summer 2006, Published by Richard Keith, which gave it a four-star rating. Click here to see the review.
- THEJournal, which reviewed PaperToolsPro in its September 2007 issue. Click here to see the review.
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Comments from high school students using PaperToolsPro... |
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| The note cards and bibliography were a great help in the program. -Hanna K |
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| The tutorial was very detailed and answered 95% of my questions.
I recently finished my research paper on Franz Kafka using the
program and PTP made the process of writing and organizing the
paper so much less stressful!!.It was easy to compile the notes
and copy and paste them to a word document..I ended up with a
14 page paper that I am very proud of. -John M |
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| It helps save time! -Kim K |
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| I loved that once you put the bibliography info in for one card
you could choose to put it on other cards and then it put them
all together for you in the end. -Stephanie P |
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| I found myself connecting to other notes..Finding a way to organize
typed notes on the computer beats the labor of writing any day.
-Jessica L |
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| I enjoyed using PaperTool Pro for my research project. It helped
me by making me put each quote into my own words, something I
usually don't do until I am writing my paper. After I had done
that, it was really easy to fit everything into my paper, because
I had already paraphrased everything. -Carla B |
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| The concept of typed notecards is fantastic, since it saves so
much time compared to writing out notecards by hand. I also love
how easily the notecards and bibliography can be transferred to
(MS) Word. -David T |
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| Typing all of my work in the spaces was definitely easier than
having to hand-write all of it out onto separate notecards.
Everything was neat and organized, and after a few tries, very
easy to understand. I read the tutorial to help me become
acclamated to working with PTP, and the directions were very
useful. -Jackie F |
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| It's a great help! It makes the whole tedious and seemingly
interminable process of writing notecards so much easier and faster.
And there's no problem of losing any of the information due to a
faulty paperclip (I am guilty of this) or having any incorrect
citations or worse, NO citations. All the information is stored
safely away on the hard drive, and filed under all the correct
headings and sources. It's wonderful. :) I feel as if a good deal
of the tension that comes with writing these types of papers has
just dissipated, leaving me free to explore and develop my ideas
more carefully. -Huma R |
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Comments from college students and other researchers... |
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| If only I had it during high school and college! I think the
interface is quite user-friendly and accessible. The juxtaposition
of the quotation and "in your own words" boxes is an especially
nice touch. I remember making my mountain of notecards, then
immediately forgetting whether I had copied directly or paraphrased
- this ended up holding up my whole writing process as I had to hunt for
all the original source material over again. The bibliography-
making tool is a godsend, too, and I'm sure it'll especially come
in handy for classes where professors are sticklers for proper
punctuation (always the most tedious part of compiling works cited
list. -Wailin Wong, Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires |
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| I have found PaperToollsPro to be an excellent writing tool when paired
with programs like Endnote. Instead of just noting the citation,
PaperToolsPro bridges source and paper through its digital note
card format. This allows paper writers to easily track information
and thoughts. -Nathan Harbacek, Student, Princeton University |
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| Keywords are the essence of bibliographic control. With PaperToolsProT
keywords as well as a descriptor identify each note entry, and with
the Idea Page the researcher can maintain a search history of
keywords. As a result, this software becomes a painless, smooth
interface between databases and a well-researched paper. -Stan
Schmidt, Reference Librarian, Northeastern University and DePaul
University |
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| I am grateful for the experience and care that went into producing
this work. It gives great peace of mine that my own work will be
authentic and properly reflect the sources referenced. -Dr. Hofmaier,
Hofmaier Chiropractics |
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| If I were a student, freshman or senior, I would appreciate having this
(PaperToolsPro) disc, not only because it facilitates the organizing
and storage of notes but also because it encourages the student to be a
discerning and honest researcher. Your introductory notes are important.
Recent public accusations of plagiarism in the press have made us
conscious of its seriousness. And so, your definition of the term, as
well as its legal and academic consequences, is important. Also, I
found PTP's distinction between "facts" on the web vs. facts in newspapers,
periodicals, and books to be most helpful. In addition to its importance
in the writing of a paper, it trains the mind to be discerning at a time
when 'anything in print is truth'. I found the work spaces for key words,
quoted passages, and the summary/paraphrase of quotes to be particularly
helpful for three reasons: comprehension, clarity, and launching of new
directions for the paper. And "Questions to Research" begs the student
to dig deeply into his/her subject. Your program is indeed an educational
tool because it goes beyond mechanical facility to the training of the mind.
Nice. -L. Rosemary Coleman, Professor Emerita, Benedictine University |
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| The product is very good and I consider it an educational tool rather than
a reworking of a notebook/outliner/mindmapping/ information manager affair.
As you rightly say in your supporting material, the danger with this other
type of material is that students just acquire masses of information with
no real learning taking place and there is a very real danger of plagiarism.
-Robert Fairbrother, student. |
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