Writing may seem like an easy activity, but it can be really demanding, especially with all the schedules and processes you have to keep in order not to compromise on the quality of your content. Of course, writing can be enjoyable, however, content writers sometimes suffer creative blocks or plain old laziness. As a writer myself, I know firsthand what it means to lose your way around writing.
Fortunately, there are ways around these dilemmas. Cultivating the right habits and utilizing several writing tools can help you focus and get the job done fast!
1. Readability Checker
This online application — Readability-Score.com makes it easy to rank your writing.
You paste your written work into the box, and the app calculates two metrics:
- Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease
- The Grade Level
Flesch-Kincaid is named after the researchers who invented it. It tends to go for the “higher is better” scoring. So, go for 80 or above when writing business articles.
Grade Level, though can be determined using several methods, it defines the probable grade level of education required to understand a work of writing. For business writing, it’s advisable to go for Grade 7 or lesser.
2. Grammar Corrector
The Online Text Correction app does a good job of pointing out errors, both grammatical and stylistic.
And if you tend to overuse a particular phrase, this app would identify it as a “dead phrase” and suggest that you rewrite the sentence.
3. Spam Analyzer
The spamanalyse.com tool checks the content of emails to see whether they’re likely to be caught by spam filters. As so with the readability checker, you plug your writing into a box and it flags words that might identify what you’ve written as spam.
Many spam filters flag junk emails with certain words. This tool helps ensure your writing actually gets to the recipient, if in an email.
4. Corporate Bullshit Generator
Corporate Bullshit Generator is fun and useful. There’s a cartoon illustration of four business people sitting around a conference room table. Once you click on the “Go” button, speech balloons business blabs appear over their heads.
This app not only helps you realize how unprofessional you sound when you talk or write fanciful business jargon, but gives you an exhaustive list of which to avoid.
5. Cliché Finder
This app is a bit less polished than the previous ones, but Cliché Finder is still useful. Rather than find spam or grammatical errors, it locates and flags commonly used clichés. Clichés make you sound unimaginative, so stop using them.
Hey, fellow writers! Have you tried any of these apps? Are there others we need to know about? Tell us!