Oak Brook, IL (PRWEB) August 31, 2005

ePen&Inc. has released PaperToolsPro 1.3, making note taking and avoiding plagiarism easy and efficient for researchers in the fields of publishing, business, and educationÂ?from middle school to graduate school.

PaperToolsPro is designed for professional or student writers to take notes right on their computer as they find information. PaperToolsPro, the leading research management software, helps writers

Gather informationÂ?quotations, notes, and sources (text, audio, and video)Â?to create note cards

Read critically to put information in their own words

Accurately record sources and page numbers

Create bibliography and citation entries in correct MLA, APA, ACS, CBE, AAAS, and Chicago styles

Organize notes with a search query

Transfer notes with citations into a rough draft on a word processing page.

The new features of the PaperToolsPro upgrade make research and documentation easier and more efficient than earlier versionsÂ?

Every window has a Screen Help menu

Files containing graphics, sound recordings, and video clips can be saved in a folder for note taking and bibliography entries

Keyword menus on relevant pages display all entered keywords

Clicking a keyword from the keyword menu enters it on a new note card

Search query window has been simplified.

PaperToolsPro helps writers process information, not words.

On their desktops and on laptops in hot spots, students and writers find information on the Internet, and copy/paste it into a folder.

Yet, understanding this material does not actually occur until they read, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and ultimately take notes in their own words. When this information is meant for publicationÂ?a research paper, a business report, a scholarly journal, a website, or a presentationÂ?the writer must also be able to cite the exact source to avoid plagiarism. Writers may carry their well-used laptops in their book bags or brief cases, but they may not carry 3 x 5 note cards for note taking, bibliography entries, and genuine processing the information.

Laurence Tribe, Richard Judd, Stephen E. Ambrose, John L. Casti, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Rev. Edward Mullins, Louis W. Roberts, including Richard JuddÂ?all these prominent historians and writers have crossed the ethical bounds of plagiarismÂ?intentionally or unintentionallyÂ?and endured the personal and professional consequences.

The president of Central Connecticut State University, Richard C. Judd, published an article in the Hartford Courant newspaper that was strikingly similar to an editorial in The New York Times and the northern Cyprus government Web site. “I mistakenly assumed notes I had made were my own and I thus incorporated them without attributionÂ?.As an author of many texts and articles, I should have done a better job of vetting my text,” Judd admitted. PaperToolsPro would have prompted Judd to cite a source with every note he took.

Unlike Internet detection services like Turnitin.com that attempt to catch writers plagiarizing without distinguishing intentional cheating from simple documentation errors, PaperToolsPro is an educational tool to help writers learn good researching skills and ethics.

The Academic Version of PaperToolsPro provides reminders for avoiding plagiarism on the note card screen. The Standard Version of PaperToolsPro additionally enables the user to import bibliography and citation information from citation management programs like EndNote and then to write notes to those sources in PaperToolsPro.

Available in Mac or PC, a fully functional free downloadable demo can be obtained from http://www.PaperToolsPro.com; or from there purchase the software on CD for $ 40 or at quantity prices, or as a site license.

Students in high school, college, and graduate school have successfully used PaperToolsPro. The May issue of eSchoolNews, the April issue of Learning & Leading with Technology published by ISTE, and the April issue of Library Media Connection spotlighted its significance as a research tool. A recent review of PaperToolsProÂ? by macCompanion gave it a five-star rating (http://www.maccompanion.com/archives/may2005/Software/PaperToolsPro.htm). Robert Pritchett, editor of macCompanion wrote, “I wished I had PaperToolsPro when I was working on my Masters.” Recommended by ESPG (Educational Software Preview Guide at www-ed.fnal.gov/espg), the program is the result of 36 years of teaching English and 27 years of software development for a university medical school.

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