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I don't know if thisis the list for this, but I have had a friend explain
tome a very creative use of Endnote. I am writing a dissertation, and I have
purchased the software for Storyspace, which is a organizational tool for
writing. Storyspace makes little boxes which you can connec with each other,
nest insideof each other, and organize in various ways to create an overall
plan for what you write. The good thing about it isthat you can put text in
the boxes, which expand.

What is working well for me is that I created a style in Endnote that lists
all the informationa bout a citation and all my notes for it. I then exported
all of my citations into a word processing file. In storyspace, I created a
sort of outline for the dissertation literature review, by making a box for
each topic. Then, scrolling through the endnote references, I blocked and
copied one, switched tothe storyspace window, made a box with the author's
name, and pasted the entire citation with notes into the box. Then I put that
box into the box for the topic it relates to.

I'm not sure if this is clear,but it is a good way of sorting an awful lot of
references (I have 450) into topics. You can then print out the storyspace
document, which prints theoutline and the citations, with notes, under the
appropriate topic. then it is simply a matter of writing the text connecting
them.

Sorry this is so long, and Ihope it is appropriate for htis list. It is just
working so well, I thought perhaps someone might want to try it also.
Nora L. Ishibashi
nli1@midway.uchicago.edu