Citation Management Software, Spellcheck Software

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  1. davesaint

    davesaint New Member

    This past semester I used MS Word to manage my APA and IEEE citations. Using MS Word for this purpose worked but was still time consuming to do so. Yesterday I conducted a search on this site and also using Google to find and review several reference management tools. I came to the conclusion that Perrla looks like it would work for me. However, it does not keep track of IEEE citations from what I can tell. Also, while conducting my search I came across several spell-checking and grammar-checking software packages (Ginger, Grammarly, English Software, After the Deadline). I ran one of my papers through the software and it found three spelling errors. I closed the software and opened the same paper in MS Word and noticed that the errors were legit. MS Word spell-check did not catch the spelling errors. Does anyone out there know of a software package that manages APA, IEEE, and that has spell-checker that actually works? If not, I could us MS Word for IEEE and Perrla for APA. I would still like a decent spell-checker though.
     
  2. JBjunior

    JBjunior Active Member

    I have been using Perrla for about two years now I guess. I like it for APA.
     
  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Perrla. I used it for my doctoral dissertation. I use it today for, uh, something else. Cheap, it works, and it's simple to use. Highly recommended.
     
  4. davesaint

    davesaint New Member

  5. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    Dave, that thing is cool. Thanks for pointing it out. I have gotten an "A" on almost everything I have written for the past 6 or 7 years, so I'm confident in my writing abilities.

    HOWEVER!!! I just ran a 29 page paper I wrote for a 900 series class and the website caught several mistakes that I did not notice. Dang! I wish I had known about that site a few days ago before I submitted that paper.

    I wish it also checked for APA style.
     
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  6. davesaint

    davesaint New Member

    SurfDoctor, PaperRater found three spelling errors in one of my paper which I already submitted. From what I remember, the instructor of the class said he was going to scanned them using the MS Word spell checker. Hopefully, it does not find the errors.
     
  7. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    Exactly, I use the MS Word spell checker too. What was cool about PaperRater was that it caught something that Word misses; words that are spelled right but are used in the wrong context. One of the things it nailed me was that I somehow used "insure" when I meant "ensure." Both are spelled correctly but have similar but slightly different meanings. I wonder if our instructor will catch that one...not if she uses spellchecker. I'm interested to know.
     
  8. _T_

    _T_ New Member

    I've been using Mendeley for my dissertation and it seems to serve its purpose well
     

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