Academic Success Center

Read&Write is a discreet, customizable toolbar that integrates reading, writing, studying, and research support tools with common applications.

Some features include:

• "Check It" Tool: Highlight text to receive spelling and grammar suggestions
• Word Prediction: Type two to three letters and populate a list of vocabulary to choose from. 
• Dictionary: Select the dictionary app to search for definitions on the spot. 
• Text-to-Speech: Have PDF docs, Word docs, web pages, and more read aloud to you. Use additional tools like the "screenshot reader" to select a specific section of your screen be read aloud or the PDF reader icon to upload an entire PDF file to the app. 
• Highlighter Tool: Highlight documents and web pages in different colors to help with organization and studying. 
• "Talk and Type" and Voice Note: Use these tools to have the app write out what you speak in real time, create speech to text .mp3 files and insert transcribed text into word files. 

Watch the 5 minute video below for a quick introduction to using Read&Write!

First, Visit the Download Read&Write page on my.erikson to download the software. (link below)

Then, visit the Read&Write company website for detailed Getting Started guides and help documents. (links below)