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PowerNotes LLC

Website: https://powernotes.com/
Library Type:  Academic
Contact:  Jeff Brunner at or 414-367-9457
Vendor Description:

PowerNotes improves source-based writing by:

    • providing students and researchers with a continuous research workflow that feeds directly into the writing process and
    • giving writing instructors visibility into their students’ research process so that they can provide interim feedback on structure, source use, and writing skills like paraphrasing.

PowerNotes is designed to address the challenges inherent to source-based writing in the digital environment. We seek to improve writing quality with tools that provide an efficient and continuous workflow through the entire digital research and writing process.

The accessibility of academic and non-academic sources has grown exponentially since research has shifted from print to digital. This shift has provided the benefit of wider dissemination of knowledge, but also created the burdens of increased volume and reduced readability. Now more than ever, tools are needed to help researchers better analyze, manage, and keep track of their digital sources. But those tools have been lacking in this new research environment.

Students wading through research are left to invent their own ad hoc processes that include word processors, spreadsheets, web clippers, and browsers, none of which are well suited for research tasks. All of these tools were designed to accomplish other things. As such, these tools do not perform many of the actions required to conduct an efficient research process, leading to student frustration and anxiety with the writing process, errors, and potentially, plagiarism. Indeed, since research has largely moved from paper to digital format, tools have not been created that effectively streamline the academic research process – until PowerNotes.

We designed PowerNotes to unify the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating, organizing, outlining, tracking, and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing process.

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