Tricks+of+the+Trade

=Tricks of the Trade (Tools and Aids) (GWU EMSE 216-8000)=

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 * Notes on Endnote,MSWord, WriteCheck, iThenicate, GWU Writing Center and finalizing a paper.**
 * **Cite while your write** (Endot is pretty good once you have paid the price of the learning curve.
 * **MSWord Spelling and Gramma**r: Run it before WriteCheck to try and minimize the things it finds and wants you to check,
 * **Writecheck** for spelling and grammar. Sometimes finds a lot of things I don't want to change. Usually asks good grammar questions. Also sometimes catches things that Review: Spelling and Grammar did not catch in MS Word. It's better if you run a complete MS Word check first. One GREAT thing about Writecheck is that is seems to check the same list of sources as does iThenticate and can provide a good indication of where there may be questions. One trick I use to keep costs down is for documents longer than 5,000 words is prepare one with out the references to upload.
 * **iThenticate** seems to be the version of the school's _. When you can't figure out what WrtieCheck is saying is copied, break down and use iThenicate too. It gives a ;much better idea of what sources are in conflict I have started ignoring a lot of miscellaneous web stuff if I have better sources. Also, if I find a LOT of material on the web, I may treat the words as in the body of knowledge from a direct quotation perspective. The question, for me, is not so much whether I need to cite or quote and cite, is what will the reviewer think.
 * **MSWord Spelling and Gramma**r: Run it again. I thought I ran it before and didn't. This pass caught half near a dozen things I changed, most because I needed to. My concern is always that my spelling and grammar checker says that it did not check the sections marked not to check. Scares me, I don't know what tha means. Also which I could reset that feature for the document.
 * **Problems**: Neither WriteCheck nor iThenicate will check your documents for self-plagiarism until they have been published and online and discovered by them.
 * **GWU Writing Center** is a good way to check your final document. My acceptance rate went up when I started having them read all my papers to me as a near-as final check as I could.
 * More Later. (regular saves with new file name) compares to catch when "cats" have walked across the keyboard. Endnote placed published, state or no state..
 * More Later. (regular saves with new file name) compares to catch when "cats" have walked across the keyboard. Endnote placed published, state or no state..

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