StyleWriter — plain English writing software

Introduction

Turn your word processor into the world's most powerful computerized editor and learn to write and edit like a pro.

StyleWriter is the best word processing add-on on the market. It teaches you to write in the style of top authors and journalists by checking every document for thousands of style and English usage faults. Ten times more powerful than any other writing aid, StyleWriter improves your writing style instantly.

Designed by experts to pass on their expertise

Designed by journalists, editors and business writing tutors, StyleWriter gives you the skills of a good editor. Simply click the StyleWriter button in Microsoft Word's or WordPerfect's toolbar (or any clipboard text) to launch a check for thousands of faults and bad habits found in writing. Trimming the excess words, simplifying and clarifying your style, checking for good English usage — editing is easy with StyleWriter.

Encourages the clearest writing style

StyleWriter works by teaching you to write in plain English - the style underlying all great writing. Don't think plain English is simplistic or patronizing. Plain English is clear English. Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are writers with a simple, clear and direct style. Time, Newsweek, Scientific America and the Washington Post - just about every successful publication - owe their popularity and readership to adopting a clear, readable style.

Look at your writing through the editor's eyes

Imagine you could afford to pay an editor to improve every document you write. Send off your business plan, technical report or sales letter and you'd get a shorter, clearer and more effective document back. But the cost would be hundreds of dollars.

With StyleWriter you can edit your own documents and save money. Sure, a professional editor would show you other ways to improve your document, but you could get most of the advice offered by running StyleWriter through your text.

Break your writing habits

Good writing transfers ideas and information from the writer to the reader clearly and concisely. StyleWriter encourages the clearest style so your reader concentrates and acts on your message rather than struggles to understand what you want to say.

StyleWriter helps you write in clear English by identifying words and phrases in your writing that get in the way of clarity and poor style. It doesn't encourage a standard style. There's plenty of room for individual style, rhetoric and imaginative writing. So let StyleWriter help you get rid of your poor writing habits, present in most writing, and let you express yourself in your own words.

Gain new writing skills

StyleWriter shows you how to run the editorial pen through everything you write to make it clear, concise and readable. Why waste time drafting average documents when you can use StyleWriter to write documents that get the results that you want?

• Sales letters bring in more business.
• Press releases get more media coverage.
• Readers act on your suggestions.
• People compliment you on your style and clarity.
• Contracts don't cause disputes because they are clear.
• Web pages increase sales.

Good writing is easy reading that guarantees you keep your readers' attention. Writing well helps you write successfully. StyleWriter users claim the program has led to better results when they write.

More powerful than your grammar checker

Ten times as powerful as and a hundred times more useful than the standard grammar checker in your word processor. Let's face it, we all know how poor grammar checkers are at improving writing. They assume you cannot write a sentence and constantly flag correct English as bad grammar. In a test of sentences with 25 grammatical errors, respondents spotted between 20 and 25 of the errors when they read the sentences. When Microsoft Word's grammar checker went through the same examples, it only spotted 6 out of the 25 errors.

Do grammar checkers really work?

More accurate than your grammar checker

StyleWriter is not a grammar checker. Grammar checkers try to show you how to write a correct sentence by analyzing each word for its part of speech and then accepting sentences only if the parts of speech are in the right order. StyleWriter is not a grammar checker and does not parse sentences. Instead it compares your text to the world’s largest database of style and usage issues. It finds the poor style habits you can change to improve the quality of writing.

You will improve your grammar if you write clearly and concisely, using shorter sentences and active verbs. StyleWriter constantly encourages you to adopt this clear style and forces you to read your work. Thus, many grammar mistakes in your writing will disappear as you rework your original text.

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