Writing Tools

Enago continues to push the envelope when it comes to devising innovative service and technology offerings to researchers and make research easier and publication more accessible to them. For us to bring you offerings that will immensely benefit you, we need to know what you think.

With this survey, we are requesting your help. Help us understand what your needs are so we can tailor our offerings for you.

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* 1. Which of these profiles do you most closely associate with?

Student (graduate, post-graduate)

Doctoral or post-doctoral researcher (PhD, post-doctoral research fellow)

Academic professional (professor, department head, etc)

Corporate researcher (researcher with a pharma company, etc)

Private researcher (own lab, private research lab, etc)

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* 2. How many papers have you published so far?

0-5

5-10

10-20

>20

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* 3. Which country do you live in?

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* 4. What is your area of research?

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* 5. Do you use any software to detect unintentional plagiarism?

Yes

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* 6. If yes, what software do you use?

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* 7. What problems are you facing with the plagiarism software?

Not easy to understand

Expensive

Don’t know how to use

All of the above

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Does the plagiarism software provide other features such as grammar check and scientific corrections?

Yes

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* 9. If yes, how useful do you find the grammar features?

Not useful

Somewhat useful

Very useful

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* 10. How useful are the scientific corrections?

Not useful

Somewhat useful

Very useful

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* 11. What features you would like to have in addition in such software?

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* 12. Do you write your paper yourself or a colleague/coauthor writes?

Myself

Colleagues/Coauthors

We use a writing company (please specify)

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* 13. Do you use any writing assistance/grammar correction software while writing your paper?

Yes

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* 14. If yes, which writing assistance/grammar correction software do you use?

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* 15. Is the software able to provide corrections for your scientific content?

Yes, somewhat

Yes, it provides many corrections

No, it doesn’t

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* 16. Do you also use professional editing services?

Yes

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* 17. What kind of writing tool do you use?

Online writing tool that can be used for sharing content with coauthors

Microsoft word and plugins

Other (please specify)

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* 18. What are the features you would like to see in such writing tools?

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* 19. What are the features of the current writing tool you like?

Easy to use

Affordable

Online tool that is useful for collaboration

Checks and corrects most grammar errors

Check and corrects most scientific errors

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* 20. How did you come to know about this tool?

My colleagues/friends use it

My institution has bought this tool

I found it online