The Writing Navigator is a free online tool and app that helps students in grades 6-12 to plan, draft, revise and publish their writing projects.
- The Writing Planner provides prompts and scaffolding for students to generate ideas and organize them into a plan.
- The Writing Drafter helps them develop sentences and paragraphs from their plans, although they do not have to have to load a plan to use this tool.
- The Writing Reviser continues this process by guiding the student through analysis of the draft for structure and sentence economy, variety, power and clarity.
- The Writing Publisher helps students with proofreading, grammar and citations to finalize their papers.
These tools are designed generally for essay type papers of less than 5,000 words, although the Planner and Drafter are useful for longer research papers and reports too. Free registration is required..
The Writing Navigator is now available as an app for iPad and Chromebook devices.