The
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ScholarWord User Manual
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II. Paper Guides
Paper Guides Overview
·
Complete list of Paper Guides
·
Selecting and Using Paper Guides
III. Inserts
Overview of Academic Inserts
·
Honor Code
·
Academic Confidentiality Notice
·
Cover Pages
IV. Writing Center
Overview of
the Writing Center
·
Mechanics
·
Style
V. Citations
Overview of Citations Tools and Information
Formatting tools
ScholarWord
presents a powerful set of tools and rich information, which facilitate writing
academic papers.
If
you’re a struggling writer, you will find that ScholarWord makes it fun and
easy to write your academic papers. If you’re an “A student,” you will
appreciate ScholarWord‘s power to increase your efficiency and productivity.
The
ScholarWord Tutorial is comprised of explanations on how to use the tools and
access the information in the program. You can use the table of contents to
fast-forward to the question you have, or read the manual from cover-to-cover
for learn all about ScholarWord’s feature set.
Who Should Use this Manual?
The
manual was written for those who want to learn how to use ScholarWord fast! The
manual can also be used as a reference tool for any questions that you have in
the future. If you can’t find the help you need, our support email is listed.
Overview of
ScholarWord Features
ScholarWord
has five tabs at the top to allow you to access different features of the
program:
1.) The “Guides”
tab brings you to the section of the program that contains our academic writing
guides.
2.) The “Inserts”
tab brings you to the section of the program that contains our tools for inserting
your cover page, or honor code, or confidentiality notice.
3.) The “Writing”
tab brings you to the section of the program that contains explanations and
examples of common writing mistakes made by students.
4.) The “Citations”
tab brings you to the section of the program that contains our powerful
citation tools and information for various writing styles.
5.) The “Help”
tab provides purchase information and serial number entry, online help files,
and more!
We have
identified four questions that seem to be the greatest stumbling blocks to
learning ScholarWord.
1.) What do the plus signs “+” mean?
When you see a “+” sign in a box (e.g.
) that means that it
contains sub-categories. You can click the plus sign to have the sub-categories
“drop-down” so you can access them.
2.) I clicked on a citation type,
but nothing happens!
When you want to insert a citation or access in-text documentation
explanations/examples you must “double-click” the topic for the form to be
presented:
A single click will
highlight the topic blue, but you must “double-click” to make the citation form
show.
3.) How do I enter the documentation information
into the citations forms?
If you don’t understand how to enter information into the citation forms,
move your mouse over the control on the form and you will be presented with a
“tool tip.”
You can also click
“preview” in the lower right hand of the citation form to preview the citation.
If something doesn’t look “right,” you can go back and change the information
you entered.
II. Paper Guides
ScholarWord
contains Paper Guides that give you instant accessibility to rich information
for a variety of writing categories and papers.
Analytical
Writing
·
Analysis of a Process
·
Cause
and Effect Paper
·
Essay
of Classification
·
Essay
of Comparison
·
Essay
of Definition
·
Essay
of Evaluation
·
Problem
and Solution Paper
Speech Writing
·
Speech
Writing
about Literature
·
Extended Literary Analysis
·
Limited Literary Analysis
·
Personal Response
·
Writing about Literature (Review)
Personal
Writing
·
Essay of Experience
·
Personal Essay
·
Personal Reminiscence
Persuasive
Writing
·
Editorial
·
Essay of Argumentation
·
Personal Commentary
·
Position Paper
Report
Writing
·
Compiled Report
·
Interview Report
·
Observation Report
·
Personal Research Report
·
Summary Report
Research
Writing
·
MLA Style Research Paper
·
APA Style
Research Paper
Selecting and
Using Paper Guides
It is very
easy to select and use the writing guides. First, select a writing category:
Next, select the type of guide that corresponds to
your writing assignment:
After you
have chosen a guide, the guide structure will be presented below the selection
box. You can then click on the section
of the guide to view the information pertaining to that section:
ScholarWord
has three types of inserts: Honor Code, Confidentiality Notice, and Cover Page.
You can access any of these from the “Inserts” tab:
To insert a “Honor Code” at the
end or beginning of your paper, simply click the launch button in the honor
code section:
To insert a
“Confidentiality Notice” at the end or beginning of your paper, simply click
the launch button in the Confidentiality Notice section:
To insert a cover page into
your paper, please note that you first have to have the
corresponding paper style and the guide selected in the guides section. For
example, if you want to insert a MLA style cover page for a research paper, you
would choose the MLA Research Paper Guide in the guides section.
After
selecting the style, simply click the launch button in the cover page section:
IV.
ScholarWord
includes explanations and examples on common writing mistakes made by students.
This help can be accessed from the “Writing” tab:
The
two sections are Mechanical and Style errors, and can be accessed by clicking
the plus sign “+” next to “Common Errors.” By clicking on each of the topics,
you will be presented with explanations and examples on each of the topics
directly below the topic list.
ScholarWord includes
powerful tools and information to help you through the documentation process.
ScholarWord has explanations and examples on the MLA and APA Style of
parenthetical references and formats over fifty types of citations for each
style.
Formatting Tools
and Information
To access
formatting help, click the button that corresponds to the style you would like
help with:
After you have clicked the button, you will
be presented with in-text and work cited documentation choices:
If you choose the “Citing sources in your
text” button, you will be presented with choices of in-text documentation help:
You must double-click these choices to
view the explanations and examples on each type of in-text documentation.
If you choose the “Work Cited/List of
References” button, you will be presented with numerous choices to format your
citations:
Double-click the title that corresponds to
your type of reference and a citation form will be presented to gather
information from you, so ScholarWord can develop your properly formatted
citation. The citation forms look like this:
When this form is presented, follow the instructions
in the black text and enter the information about your reference. If you do not
understand how to enter your information, place your cursor over the control
and a “tool-tip” will be presented:
When you are done
entering your information, you can click “preview” or “insert.”
·
“Preview”
allows you to preview the citation before it is entered.
·
“Insert”
skips the preview and enters the citation directly into your paper.
To
save your citations, you just have to check the checkbox in the lower left hand
corner while citing a reference:
Then,
when you want to insert or edit that reference in the future, you can access
all of your saved citations by pressing the “Saved Cit…” button in the
citations section:
When
you click on this button, you will be presented with your saved citations. With
this form, you can insert, or edit your saved reference. To insert or modify
the reference, you must first select it from the list,
it will then be highlighted blue:
If
you want to enter a subsequent reference in the Chicago/Turabian style (you
have to have the Chicago/Turabian style button selected in the citation
section, you use the “subsequent reference” section:
Select:
