UGS 303: Education and Black America / Foster

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

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

Step 1: Register for a free account 

Step 2: Create a new Project. Choose APA style

Step 3: Begin adding sources with connected note cards. You can also create to-do lists to keep organized.

Step 4: Drag notecards into your outline. You can export your outline so you can hand it in.

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 edit it as your ideas develop
• create annotations and export into an annotated bibliography
• create an outline by dragging notecards (with quotations/paraphrasings and corresponding page numbers) into it to structure your paper

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