Work on Your Writing

Use the following Writing Studio tools to work on your writing. Keep your projects organized by creating folders of work for each of your writing projects. For example, create separate folders for a composition assignment, an engineering design project, and a research essay. To create or work on a folder, you'll need to login.

	Drafts Work on your Drafts with our built-in word processor. You can work with formatted text just as you would in Word Perfect or Microsoft Word.		Current Folder at a Glance View all of your work on a folder on a single page. You can work on your drafts as you view your ideas, working bibliography, notes, and to-do list. you can also create new drafts and switch from folder to folder.
	Outliner Use the Outliner to organize your ideas for a draft. You can link notes and sources to the entries in your outlines.
	Sources & Source Notes Keep track of your sources for a writing project with the Your Sources and Your Source Notes tools. You can create bibliographies in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles and evaluate, save source text, and create notes for your sources.			Blogs Create Blogs to keep track of your ideas or share your thoughts with other writers. You can keep your Blogs private, share one or more with a class, share them with individual writers, or publish them on the Writing Studio Blogs page.
	Ideas Keep track of your ideas for a writing project with the Your Ideas tool. You can add, delete, edit, and categorize your ideas.			To-Do List Create a To-Do List to organize your work on a writing project. You can add or delete tasks, create notes about each task, and prioritize your tasks.
	ePortfolios Use the electronic portfolios tool to present your writing to friends, family, colleagues, or potential employers. You can also use the ePortfolio tool to respond to class assignments and institutional assessments.