Students enter main and supporting ideas to build a framework for their writing. This step helps students develop organizational skills. Notes Students add notes for topics to expand their outline. Notes never get lost and are easy to move and reorganize. This step helps students clarify and develop their thoughts.
Students can copy, paste and drag information to reorganize and refine the draft.
OutLoud or other word processor for creating the final paper. Students can drag the scroll bar to expand the view they're most comfortable working in. It's easy to work back and forth between the two views students drag items from one view to the other. As students work in one view, the other view changes to reflect their work. With both views visible in all steps of the draft-building process, students can see a visual representation of the relationships between ideas as they type.