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Apr 10	comment	Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers @Joshua Drake: Might be helpful to add the why you believe that SE would be a fit. Based on the FAQs for Academia.SE - "This site is for academics of all levels—from aspiring graduate and professional students to senior researchers—as well as anyone in or interested in research-related or research-adjacent fields." -- I'd say no, since this question is about learning to write research papers. Thanks for the suggest though, and I'm open to any additional thoughts on the subject. Cheers!
Apr 6	comment	Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers +1 @Lauren Ipsum: Agree, and I've added that info. I somehow missed stating that directly in the question. Thanks!
Apr 6	revised	Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers added 64 characters in body
Apr 6	comment	Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers @Lauren Ipsum: The idea is for the "in house" sources, such as a clone of Wikipedia, to be "big enough" to do a number of research papers. Point of the platform is to make it very easy to learn to write a research paper; the text-only version of Wikipedia is just a few gigs I believe. Point of it being static is to keep it simple. For example, the basic verse would have you copy-n-paste the main ideas from the text, you'd rephrase the copy, and the system would automatically embed the citation in the correct form. And yes, the point of this basic education, not professional writing.
Apr 6	asked	Self-contained software environment for authoring research papers
Dec 17	accepted	State of the art proof reading tools/methods
Dec 17	comment	State of the art proof reading tools/methods Not a big deal, other item of interest I tried in the past that didn't help, though was interesting was a speed reading system that displayed only a set number of words at a time, though it didn't increase the rate or volume of of errors I'd find; think in fact I was finding less errors.
Dec 17	comment	State of the art proof reading tools/methods Guess I asked in part to make sure there had not been a leap in NLP related to proof reading that I was not aware of. I've tried the e-reader idea before, clearly not a great place to be editing text, and I try to print as little out as possible; though years ago I would and it was a huge waste. Thanks for the feedback though, asked in part just to confirm there nothing of note I haven't tried before.
Dec 17	comment	State of the art proof reading tools/methods +1 @Kate Sherwood: Beyond MS-Word, which I've found to be more confusing than of use, I've tried WhiteSmoke, which was not as you might expect a huge leap better than MS-Word; spelling wise Google is 100x better than MS-Word. As I stated in the question, text-to-voice is in fact one of the few ways I do find of use. I've thought of, and tried to log common errors, but there really does not appear to be a 20/80 pattern to them and managing/referencing them after a short amount of time becomes more overhead than it's worth.
Dec 16	asked	State of the art proof reading tools/methods
Jun 4	comment	Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) +1 @Standback: Yes, as Ralph Gallagher's answer points to, the nebulous characters you're referring to never develop, and are remain in the background. In a way, I now see more degrees to which characters exist now. Your description of characters being beyond the focus of the story makes sense.
Jun 4	comment	Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) Yes, it does make sense, though it points to something I hadn't seen before, that being regardless if the story has characters, or not, there is always at least one person in the story; meaning while third-person narration excludes the existence of the narrator from existing as a character in the story, it does not mean they don't exist; or that least that's my take.
Jun 4	comment	Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) +1 @Lauren Ipsum: Related, but different I believe. René Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images" has a subject, just not the subject one might think it is.
Jun 4	accepted	What is the term for written expressions that lead to “reading between the lines?”
Jun 4	comment	What is the term for written expressions that lead to “reading between the lines?” +1 @Dale Emery: Yes, appears subtext is the word I'm looking for, thank you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext
Jun 4	asked	What is the term for written expressions that lead to “reading between the lines?”
Jun 4	comment	Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words) +1 @Lauren Ipsum: Interesting, thanks for sharing. In a way, the best example I've been able to think of matches your example, that being this sentence: "This is not a story, but a reference to it." This creates the story, but the story itself is without form.