Google Docs Research Tool: A Review

Yesterday I was unusually intrigued by a little yellow notification in a Google Doc I was working on. It informed me of a new Google Doc feature called “Research Tool.” Who could resist playing with a feature so named? Not any regular reader of ProfHacker. And so I tested it. Here are my thoughts:

The new feature puts a new option in the Tools menu within a Google Doc called “Research.” To use it, you first highlight a word or phrase (or, as in the image below, a large chunk of text like a poem) in the document you’re writing, then click Tools –> Research (or use the keyboard shortcut: Command+Option+R on Mac; Control+Alt+Ron Windows). This performs a Google Search on the highlighted words, the results of which pop up in a right-hand sidebar.

Read more: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/google-docs-research-tool-a-review/40119?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en