Tools

Grammarly

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is the internet’s favorite editor. From weeding out spelling mistakes to improving your phrasing, it’s an excellent tool for all types of writing.

What Does Grammarly Do?

Grammarly is an online grammar check tool that also covers style, tone, and clarity.

The Grammarly check will notice formal grammar issues, as well as excessive passive voice, poor phrasing, wordy sentences, and more. It provides real-time suggestions to improve your text and works across different platforms.

Where can you use Grammarly?

• In Word
• Google Docs
• On Chrome
• Desktop App
• Facebook
• Also on mobile devices

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Hemingway Editor

What is the Hemingway App?

The Hemingway App is an editing tool that identifies errors and areas of improvement in writing, by highlighting and fixing common errors and sentence structure.

Also known as Hemingway Editor, the editing tool finds and fixes errors in spelling, syntax, flow, and sentence structure through the use of color-coded highlighting. 

What does Hemingway editor do?

So what’s the key promise made by Hemingway App Editor? Can it really help authors improve their book writing?

In the words of its creators, Hemingway “makes your writing bold and clear.” A big claim. And when the creators choose to name their app after arguably the best writer of all time, it becomes even bigger!

How does Hemingway Editor work?

two main ways to use the service on offer:

1. Hemingway Editor – free online editing service, no account required.
2. Hemingway App – downloadable version of Hemingway, one-off payment.

 How to use the Hemingway Editor free version:

1.  Go to the Hemingway App website to get started.
2. Write directly into the app, or paste in some text. 
3. Review the highlighted portions of text. 
4. Decide what to revise based on Hemingway Editor’s suggestions. 

How to use the Hemingway Editor desktop version

The interface of the paid version of Hemingway is the same as the free version shown above. 

But the paid version of the Hemingway Editor include these extra features:

1. Works offline. 
2. Publish directly
3. PDF exports.

Hemingway App Benefits

1. Adverbs in blue – If the number of adverbs is over a suggested amount, the app points this out. If you’ve read writing guides such as On Writing by Stephen King, you’ll know that adverbs are frowned upon.
2. Passive voice in green – Although suitable for formal writing, many people feel that using the passive voice lessens the impact of your words. Hemingway points out your use of the passive voice, so you can consider using an active form instead. 
3. Very long sentences in red – If Hemingway considers a sentence to be very long or complex, it highlights it in red. This example sentence taken from Stuart Little is one example!
4.  Long sentences in yellow – If your sentences are long or complex, but not so much as to be highlighted red, Hemingway highlights them yellow. This is shown with an example sentence from Stephen King’s The Shining.  
5. Complex words and phrases in purple. – When Hemingway finds a word or phrase that it feels could be written using a simpler alternative, it highlights it in purple. This is shown with an example from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. 
6.  Show more information option – As well as the detailed, highlighted areas of improvement described above, Hemingway also gives you a word count and readability level for your text.

Spam, keywords in the text (Istio)

What is istio?

The analysis of the semantic core of a text assesses its keyword density, water and spamming.

The Istio semantic text analysis evaluates keyword stuffing, water and spamming. Search engines determine the quality and relevance of a text by the words and phrases it contains.

If a text contains an appropriate number of relevant key phrases, search engines will evaluate it positively. Watery articles and ones with not enough keywords will not show on the first page of search results. Texts overstuffed with keywords are treated as spam, and search engines rarely show them.

What Semantic Text Analysis Reveals

SEO text analysis allows you to assess the percentage of keywords and the number of stopwords. The service shows:

• Keyword density and their ratio to the core of the text
• Number of words and symbols, with and without spaces
• Vocabulary, by the total number of entries and the core units
• Word density, indicating the top-10 most commonly used ones
• The text’s language and approximate subject
• Water

The Istio semantic text analysis automatically counts the number of symbols and assesses the overstuffing and water. The service highlights the keywords and water and draws a user-friendly frequency chart.

Features of Istio

1.Keyword Stuffing Check

The over-spamming index shows how overstuffed with keywords a text is. The more keywords, the higher the index. Search engines will evaluate such texts as poor in quality and not show them on the first page.

Insert the keywords in the Highlight Keywords field to assess their density, and the service will highlight them automatically.

2. Water

The water analysis reveals the quantity of stop-words, colloquial expressions and redundant constructions. Deleting those do not impair the content’s meaning, enhancing its quality instead.

The service highlights redundant vocabulary used to magnify the meaning and words and phrases containing no specific information, recommending the highlighted units for deletion or replacement.

3. Number of Symbols and Keyword Density

The bottom of the page shows the number of symbols, with and without stop-words, and the density of particular units. The keyword density is shown in a separate field, indicating their ratio to the entire text and the relevant phrases.

To check a text for its water, keyword density and phrase frequency:

• Select the Text Analysis and insert it in the field
• Enter keywords in the List of Keywords, if necessary
• Click on Highlight Keywords to see their location in the text
• Select the Chart for the service to show the most frequently detected units in a large print
• Click on Watery to highlight irrelevant units

Istio is available for use without registration or authorisation and sets no limits on the number of symbols for checking.

Miratext

What is Miratext?

The tool will show character count, nausea, wateriness, word clouds, repetition count, and Zipf’s law analysis.

Miratext options

Copywriters have the following options:

• Analysis of the finished text according to various parameters;
• Analysis of the resource for the uniqueness of the posted articles.

Text analysis

What is text analysis?

General text statistics: the number of characters with spaces, the number of characters without spaces, the number of words, the “nausea” of the text, the “wateriness” of the text, the quality of the text according to Zipf’s law.

Also additional metrics with a graph, such as:

• The number of repetitions for one word.
• Word frequency cloud.
• The number of repetitions of two words.
• The number of repetitions of three words.
• Words that affect the “nausea” of the text.
• Words that affect the “wateriness” of the text.
• The quality of the text according to Zipf’s law with recommendations for the occurrence of words.