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Outlines Make for Organized Writing!

‘PaperToolsPro’ features outline page to help students better manage the research writing process

Oak Brook, IL, August 16, 2010 – Created by ePen&Inc. and M3Designs, Inc., PaperToolsPro, an online educational tool that helps facilitate the writing process, now features an outline page in its program. The outline page enables students and professional writers to effectively manage their research notes by highlighting key themes and ideas that will later be incorporated into their research papers.

The outline page provides an easy-to-use template that allows students to sort out their notes in a clear and organized manner. It guides users through the writing process by asking them to: 1) Select main ideas that explain the thesis statement of their paper, 2) Determine developing points to support the main ideas, and 3) Begin a draft of their paper using these elements. During each step, PaperToolsPro provides detailed instructions on how to incorporate students’ notes into the application and explains the importance of implementing this formal writing process.

“The research writing process can be a very daunting task for students, oftentimes leading to frustration and disengagement and, at times, acts as an excuse for plagiarism,” said Dorothy Mikuska, founder of ePen&Inc. “PaperToolsPro provides students with a resource that takes them step-by-step through the research and note-taking phases of writing and assists them in creating an original and successful research paper. The addition of the outline page helps students organize their notes and use them as a model for drafting their paper.”

PaperToolsPro is designed to help writers enter publication information for bibliography entries and citations, take notes either as quotations or notes in their own words, and to identify information with descriptors and keywords.  This process is carried out in the online platform as writers find information from the Web, from print books and resources, and from primary sources.

PaperToolsPro helps writers:

· Gather information including quotations, notes, and sources (text, audio, and video) to help create organized note cards

· Read critically in order to put information in their own words

· Accurately record sources and page numbers

· Create bibliography and citation entries in MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago styles

· Organize notes with a search query

· Transfer notes with citations into a rough draft on a word processing page

Pricing and Availability

The outline page is currently available as part of PaperToolsPro for no additional charge to users. PaperToolsPro costs $20 per year for students, $75 per teacher, plus $1 per student, or $200 per building, plus $1 per student. There is also a special $55 lifetime individual subscription. For more information, visit www.papertoolspro.net.

About ePen&Inc.

ePen&Inc. specializes in helping students engage in active learning through the ethical use of technology.  PaperToolsPro was created by ePen&Inc to provide student and professional researchers with a tool to gather information with ease, integrity, rigor, and careful documentation. For more information visit the company online at www.papertoolspro.net.

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