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A colleague of mine has just spent last weekend helping his SiL get a piece of written coursework into a state that she can submit it. I understand the process was painful. I know that people on here know about software that enables academic footnotes/ references to be created in msWord - can you offer me some advice so that my colleague doesn't have to go through another weekend of pain next month?
Also, is there something that she can test submit to go at least some way towards making sure that there aren't any unintended plagiarism issues....
Thanks.
Plagiarism issues - you want Turnitin - my students submit everything online through this, and they are allowed multiple re-subissions until the deadline to iron out any plagiarism issues (doesn't always help, I had to haul someone over the coals for it the other day) this is paid for at an institutional level, and not all tutors are good enough with computers to set it up in a useful way - ours is done through the virtual learning environment we use (Blackboard). If this isn't something that the course/tutor/university use, then you can try writecheck.com - does the same thing, but charges the students, there is the option to extend it to get tutoring on essays through there as well. I feel that some kind of basic plagiarism checking system is a must for most essay based courses nowadays, and I have less cases of plagiarism since I started using it.
Citations and the like - MSWord will do this in house - http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/create-a-bibliography-HA010067492.aspx
It works, but I personally don't like it for writing - I use Zotero:
Which takes a little setting up, but saves a lot of time - particularly with the browser integration and scraping for the reference content, allowing you to build a citation library very easily, it also manages change in referencing style very well - if you need to submit something as Harvard one place and APA another, it's a godsend.
+1 on zotero if you must use word
Thanks. Just what I wanted.
I'd prefer that he was fresh from the weekend to work on my projects rather than be worn out trying to sort out someone else's!
I use [url= http://www.mendeley.com/ ]Mendeley[/url] for all of my referencing. Really easy to set up and use.
It made writing my dissertation last year slightly less of a soul destroying activity than it could have been.
(As a side note if they have to regularly write long reports then it is definitely worth putting the time in to learn LaTex. Makes formatting so much easier.)
+1 for Mendeley, funnily enough taught a session for post-grads/PhD students on it today. Easy to pick up, works with Word too. Loads of support online, if you Google whatever you're trying to do someone has put instructions online.