Automatic Text Analysis
ProWritingAid will examine your text using a variety of metrics and algorithms developed by ProWritingAid. The analyses are based on established guidelines for writing that can be measured. to avoid using adverbs in excess, make use of more transitions, fewer glue words and pronouns and many more. These rules are more or less apparent if you want to write effectively. ProWritingAid makes these guidelines visible.
Realtime is an excellent tool to speed up the process of working on documents.
After you’ve corrected the mistakes, you can start editing the individual reports. These will allow you to examine your sentence and word choices, patterns as well as repeat words. To determine what areas to focus on to achieve the greatest improvement in the fastest time You can conduct a Summary Report.
How to Utilize It
ProWritingAid provides a range of formats. Their Web Editor lets you edit documents using your browser. They also include browser extensions that let users to fix their grammar problems on sites like Twitter, WordPress, Gmail, Facebook and Facebook. You can also edit your Word documents with their Word extensions that are that are available on Windows and Mac.
We’ll focus on their Desktop App this morning, which is great for using alongside the Ulysses documents.
ProWritingAid.com Registration is necessary to access the tool. There are a variety of ways to work with Ulysses documents and ProWritingAid. Ulysses authors can use the online Web Editor for free or download the desktop software. Premium licenses are needed to edit over 500 words simultaneously or to use the desktop software.
The desktop application can read and writing 8 file types, including Markdown. So you can export the Ulysses text to a Markdown File, conduct the editing process using ProWritingAid, and import back to your Ulysses library to further process. This is fast and efficient, but it doesn’t allow you to save your images or attachments such writing objectives. After playing around with the application, I discovered this method to be suitable for my workflow.
Open ProWritingAid. Create a Markdown file.
Go to your Ulysses page, choose a text passage and then use the Edit menu command “Copy Markdown“.
Paste into ProWritingAid.
Then go through the report and then edit it in ProWritingAid.
After you’re done editing, copy and select the text.
Paste back to your Ulysses sheet, replacing the previous version of the text passage and then select the “Paste from Markdown” option in the Edit menu.
The Reports
ProWritingAid reports highlight any problems that you may be facing. The explanations and/or suggestions be displayed when you move your cursor over an underlined passage. Click on a suggestion to see a list of possibilities for solutions. Click the suggestion to see a simpler word, or an equivalent.
The reports come with a brief explanation, and a link to ProWritingAid’s comprehensive information. You will find some examples that will provide you with an understanding of the length and depth of my explanation.
Writing Style Audit This report can help you improve your writing. You can see that the report focuses on passive voice in your text. But writing using active voice are more engaging. Writing Style Check also highlights the use of adverbs and repeated sentence beginnings and offers suggestions for readability enhancements.
The report identifies words that are so frequently used in daily life that they’ve become boring and almost meaningless, e.g there and have . ProWritingAid might not be able to tell if you are using excessively.
Verify the length of sentence
Texts with sentences of varied lengths are more enjoyable to read. This report displays the length of your sentences in bar graphs, to help you determine quickly whether you require to work on improving. The report will also identify long sentences that can make text difficult to understand.
Pricing
ProWritingAid’s online tool is completely free. It’s not as user-friendly and you won’t be able to view all reports. But it might give a great first impression. Premium memberships can be purchased at a price of $79 for a calendar year, and $399 per life license. ProWritingAid allows you to take your time and provides a 14-day money back guarantee.
Final Thoughts
ProWritingAid doesn’t replace human editors and is not intended to replace human editors. The tool highlights the most important aspects of a document and does a thorough work. Although you’ll still have edit the text by your self, ProWritingAid will make this easier and faster.