![]() Some American writers seem particularly prone to that. People, at any rate people nowadays, don't do it naturally.Some people write in an overly provincial (and soon dated) slangly style. Why write "have a steep learning curve" when you could write "are hard to use"? (And never mind including "at first".)Writing simply is hard to do. Quote:All right, everybody who claims to be a writer but has misused the phrase "steep learning curve" in this conversation: off with your heads! I think all's fair on forums on in emails.But good writers wouldn't use such phrases at all. As soon as you really want to make use of the more advanced features, Word is much harder to learn because it's styling system is so broken.) Most people don't even use the most basic of Word's styling features, for them Word is basically a digital type writer with ad hoc formatting. The thing is that most people think that Word is easy to learn which it isn't. Definitely worth checking out.(As for the steep learning curve: yes and no. Above all, it's fast, has no problems with long documents and literally never crashes. ![]() While it certainly hasn't all the features of Word (who needs them), every feature it has is integrated in the most thought-out way. You can basically do any type of writing with these two programs. Both programs have a somewhat steep learning curve, but that is mostly because of the control and customizing that is available. Mellel takes the information directly from Bookends, and you really don't have to worry about formatting. Quote:Originally posted by Len:A wonderful combination for academic work is Mellel and Bookends.Bookends has all the citation formats, including Turabian, built in (and also customizable if required). i'd give it a test drive if i was shopping around. of course i agree with you the website blows chunks. anyway, the thing's got a free trial- one could try rather than making apriori judgments. old XP machine gave up its ghost to the macmini. If they can't recognize the importance of organizing a product website to make it easy to navigate and to find critical info quickly, I'm not the least bit confident their software would be any better. Quote:Originally posted by NuVector:quote:Originally posted by Catullus:what about nota bene? Aside from not supporting the Mac, their website alone would discourage me from purchasing this product. For humanities, it's basically useless.Saying that you come back to Endnote because it isn't buggy, sounds like a satire to me … As soon as the citation style is a bit more complex than the most simple English-based hard science style you're out of luck. And no, it doesn't "support pretty much any kind of citation style imaginable". Endnote is an overpriced buggy piece of crap which should be avoided at any costs. When you have dozens of footnotes/endnotes and a program screws them up, it is a really, really shitty time fixing them. Most colleges have site licenses and give it away for free to their students.I tried Sente, Bookends, Zotero, and Mendeley and I am back to Endnote because it is the only one that integrates with Word without producing weird bugs. It supports pretty much any kind of citation style imaginable. Quote:Originally posted by relyt:Endnote is pretty much the standard in academia.
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