Automatic Text Analysis
ProWritingAid automatically analyses your text using different statistics and its own algorithms. The analyses are based on the established guidelines for writing, which can be assessed. To use adverbs sparingly and to make use of less transitions. If you’re interested in quality writing, you’ll likely try to stick to these rules more or less in your head. ProWritingAid makes them easily visible.
Realtime lets you quickly work through documents.
After these errors are corrected Once these errors are fixed, you can move on to individual reports for more thorough editing. They let you examine your sentence structures, repeated words and more. To determine the areas where you must focus for the greatest outcomes in the shortest period of time, you can run the Summary Report.
How to Utilize It
ProWritingAid can be downloaded in a variety of formats. You can make use of their Web Editor to edit documents in your browser. Also the browser extensions permit quick grammar fixes for websites like Twitter and Facebook. Word addins for Windows, Mac and Windows let you modify Word documents right from the start.
Today, we’ll focus on their Desktop App. This application is perfect to work with Ulysses documents.
ProWritingAid.com Registration is necessary to access the tool. There are a variety of ways Ulysses documents may be utilized and ProWritingAid can be used. Ulysses writers can make use of the free online Web Editor, or download the desktop application. Premium licenses are required to edit more than 500 words at a time or to utilize the desktop application.
The desktop app can read 8 file types (Markdown included). Markdown File can be used to export Ulysses text. ProWritingAid will then edit the text, and you can then import it to Ulysses for further processing. It’s fast and effective however it doesn’t permit you to keep the images or attachments that you use for writing objectives. After some testing with the app, I discovered that the following workflow is effective for me:
Open ProWritingAid.
Open your Ulysses sheet and choose the text section. Then, select the Edit menu’s “Copy as Markdown” command.
Paste into ProWritingAid.
Then review each report individually and edit within ProWritingAid.
Once you are done, select the edited text, and then copy it.
Copy the text from the previous version onto your Ulysses page, using the “Paste from Markdown“ option in the Edit menu.
The Reports
ProWritingAid reports show your text underlined. The explanations and/or recommendations will appear when you move your cursor across an underlined passage. Simply click on the suggestion, e.g. Click the suggestion to see the word in a simpler form, or an equivalent.
The reports come with a brief explanation, and a link to ProWritingAid’s comprehensive information. You will find some examples to give you an idea of the depth and breadth of my explanation.
Writing Style Check This report is meant to help improve your writing skills, which is based on various rules for excellent writing. This report can help you identify the use of passive voice within your writing. Active voice sentences are more engaging and easier to understand. Writing Style Check also highlights the use of adverbs and repeated sentence beginnings, and makes proposals to improve readability.
Overused Words This report looks at the words that are so ubiquitous in everyday life that they are nearly meaningless. ProWritingAid may not be able to tell if you are using excessively.
Verify the length of sentences
Texts with sentences of varied lengths are more interesting to read. The report shows your sentence lengths as a bar graph, so you can see at a glance if there’s an opportunity for improvement. In addition, it highlights long sentences which can make a text difficult to understand.
Pricing
The ProWritingAid online tool is free of charge. While it’s less user-friendly and doesn’t offer access to all reports, it could be useful for creating an initial impression. Premium memberships allow you to use the desktop app as well as add-ons, and are priced beginning at $79 per year or $399 for lifetime licensing. It is possible to take your time to figure out whether ProWritingAid is for you, because it comes with 14 days of money-back guarantee.
Final Thoughts
ProWritingAid isn’t intended to replace the human editor. It highlights specific elements of text and performs a thorough job. ProWritingAid can’t replace manual editing of your texts. However, it can make the process easier and more efficient.