Research For Writers

If you are a freelance writer then you probably do a great deal of research; much as you might enjoy this part of the job there is no getting away from the fact that research is time consuming. When you are trying to run a writing business time is money and if you can save some research time then your hourly rate or job rate goes up.

Articles especially may need a lot of research time and if you are writing twenty different articles you will need a good deal of resources if you are to avoid repetition. What you really need is a great research tool to help with the work. I have tried a few things to help with the research side of things but the best one yet is something called Answer Analyst. With this tool you put in your research question, click the search engine and get results and the tool comes back with up to a 100 sources and each link comes complete with a summary of the content so you can tell immediately if will be of any use. True, you do get quite a few useless links but the summary lets you know that in advance so you don't waste your time clicking on them. This tool has quite literally cut my research time in half in the last week or so since I got it, check it out.