Submitted for your consideration

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 3, 2012 at 01:12 PM

This discussion is happening on so many threads that I don’t know which one to reply to :)

I feel that some of the disagreements here stem from the fact that we use “writing” as a monolithic activity, when in fact “writing” can mean something very different for different people, and therefore different types of tools would be more suitable.

E.g. “writing” as in writing up the results of a large research study where the process of writing is still a process of discovery might be very different than writing up something with which one is fairly familiar, such as one’s diary entry or the manual for a software or some other business writing. I’m sure fiction writers engage in yet another type of writing. So “outlining” would mean something different in each case, therefore we should be careful about making definite statements about which outlining software is the best one for “writing.”