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Track your sources: For each source, enter the source name (e.g., "Smith 2021") in the first field, then list key terms, phrases, or concepts associated with that source in the second field. Separate multiple terms with commas.
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It's often said that people are either born writers or they're not. Research tells a different story: we all grow as writers the same way, by learning to make writerly choices more consciously and strategically.
That's how this site aims to help.
Popular word processors weren't designed by writing professors, and it shows. Platforms like Word and Google Docs reflect and reinforce wrong ideas about writing—ideas that prevent or even undermine the development of writing skills.
Like "adulting," "writing" is an umbrella term that holds—and obscures—hundreds of distinct activities that eventually lead to clear, polished prose: reading, note-taking, brainstorming, drafting, revising, restructuring, and more.
Each of these tasks requires totally different skills and cognitive processes. Experienced writers know this and develop highly complex workflows.
You wouldn't know any of this by looking at Microsoft Word. These processes could not be intuited by staring at a blank document and blinking cursor.
Traditional word processors are good at text entry, and that's about it. Any writer will tell you that writing is 99 percent revision, but ordinary word processors provide no support here.
Revision tools are limited to spell check and grammar check—as though the things that separate first and final drafts are small sentence-level mistakes. This is a poor understanding of revision, and of writing in general.
Writers have been set up to fail. No wonder the appeal of chatbots eager to do the work for you.
The Writing Program reflects and reinforces how experienced writers actually write. There are places for planning, note-taking, reflecting, and synthesizing. But not all of these processes happen at once.
Like a prism separates white light into its constituent colors, this app breaks down the writing process into its constituent tasks, so it doesn't overwhelm. In this way, writers can make writerly choices more deliberately and strategically.
The result: more sophisticated ideas, articulated in clearer, simpler language.
Rather than treating writing as a linear process, this platform offers different "modes" to help you engage with specific revision tasks:
Manage your entire writing project in one organized space:
While AI-powered processors may offer to do the work for you, this platform is built on a different principle: learning tools should promote, not bypass, the deliberative practices that make writing the key to learning.
This platform doesn't do the work for you—it offers a framework that helps you do it yourself. By engaging actively with these tools, you'll develop the conscious, strategic approach that defines expert writers.
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