The Word Cloud

Outlining and draft building

• Any outlining mode in word processors

• WriteEZ
• KeyNote
• Papel
• Draft Builder helps your students develop a strategic approach to planning, organizing and draft-writing.

Tools for specific genres

See also idea managers (there is quite a lot of overlap)

Story writing

• WriteThis. The tool generates writing exercises, based on a set of keywords and criteria. It can generate characters, locations, items and special rules, and you - the writer - have a specified number of minutes to combine these things into a story.
• QuickStory 5 (A free version is QuickPlot ) ?

Wordprocessing for writers

• RoughDraft has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays.
• yWriter, Story writing software (by Simon Haynes, free)

Argumentation and dialog

•   Computer-supported argumentation

Scholarly writing

• ARTware - support the early stages of scholarly writing using hypertext representations

Collaborative writing and documentation

• Google Docs for educators - online collaborative document creation and sharing
• ThinkFree - online collaborative document creation and sharing

Storyboard software for films

• StoryBoard Pro (free for education)
• Celtx (free media pre-production software)

Concept maps

• concept map
• Visualization

Guidelines

Guidelines can classified as tools.

• Online Technical Writing
• Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing
• Word and the Writing process (good advice for using MS Word ... also

General links

Index of writing tools

• http://fencer.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/the-search-for-the-perfect-writing-tool/
• http://writing.wild-mind.net/Writers_Tools/