Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Citations Assistance

I came across a new tool that should save TONS of time for anyone writing a research paper. It's called Citelighter. This is a tool that you will need to download to your computer. It nestles itself nicely into your internet explorer/google chrome/firefox tool bar. Unless you click the blue highlighter, you don't even know it's there. The biggest plus for this tool is that when you highlight information from an internet source, online journal article, or any other online course, the tool creates the citation for you in whatever format you need (APA, MLA, Chicago). No more do you need to spend hours gleaning that MLA manual for where that little period goes or which part is capitalized vs italicized. My only word of advice would be to double check the accuracy of the tool by spot checking your citations every now and then. You can easily edit a citation after Citelighter creates it. Oh and it stores everything for you. I haven't found a limit yet. It is also compatible with just about every site I have gone to, with the exception of my university lecture notes from the professor.  I can see this becoming extremely popular with students of all ages!

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