UGS 303: Language & Ethnic Identity / Toribio

NoodleTools has features that respond directly to multiple aspects of this assignment. You are being asked to focus your topic, create an annotated bibliography, create an outline and use your sources as evidence in your paper.

NoodleTools allows you to:

• Save source citations and create annotations within the tool.
• Record thoughts, questions and keywords you want to explore in notecards
• Create notecards where you can pull quotations and create paraphrases and other notes to make it easy to find your sources and to remember why you wanted to use them in the first place.
• Create outlines and drag and drop sources into it
• Create and export formatted references
• Add group members by username to collaborate on a project

Research is messy and group work takes a lot of coordination. You will need to use something like googledocs for most of your writing, but for storing and exporting citations, NoodleTools is a complementary collaborative tool.

Step 1: Register for a free account 

Step 2: Create a new Project. You can choose ALA, MLA or Chicago style.

Step 3: Add all group members to the project.

Step 4: Everyone in the group starts adding sources with connected note cards. You can also create to-do lists to keep the group organized.

Step 5: Export your formatted Works Cited list to GoogleDocs or Word.

A few other helpful features of NoodleTools:

• helps with formatting in-text citations
• create a thesis statement and collaboratively edit it
• create annotations together and export into an annotated bibliography
• create an outline together by dragging notecards into it to structure your paper

Learn how to do all of this and more with the HelpDesk instructions and screenshots.