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StyleWriter - the Solution to Your Editing Needs

StyleWriter can immediately show if you're using plain English in your writing, where the specific faults lie and how you can break any bad writing habits you have. When you use StyleWriter, you'll soon learn the skills you need to write well.

StyleWriter, the Plain English Editor, is the world’s most powerful desk-top editor. It runs from within Word and other leading word processors to show you how to edit every sentence. StyleWriter checks word-processed documents against 35,000+ language problems and shows you how to write plain English. You can even add your own word and language patterns and StyleWriter will check these for you as well. 

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It's like having your own personal editor sitting next to you as you write. StyleWriter opens in your word processing program and edits all text documents. It analyses each document and then highlights all the style faults. It's then a simple matter to edit your document to eliminate faults such as:

  • Ambiguous words

  • Complex words

  • Overused words

  • Commonly confused words

  • Jargon/Abstract words

  • Gender-specific words

  • Wordy phrases

  • Passive verbs

  • Foreign words

  • Qualifying words

  • Confused hyphens

  • Clichés

  • Legal words

StyleWriter shows statistics for three key areas as you edit: 
  • Poor Style Index - measures all the plain English problems in your text, including a weighted score for long sentences. It then converts this measure into an index. 
  • The Average Sentence Length - is a guide to how readable your writing is. One of the greatest barriers to clear communication is the long sentence, so StyleWriter includes a word count of every sentence you write and alerts you when your sentences are too long. If you have a high sentence average, look for ways to cut out unnecessary words and phrases or split the long sentences into shorter sentences. You can cut up to 30% from a typical document!
  • The Passive Index - shows whether you have used too many passive verbs and helps you decide how many you need to change into active verbs.

A score of 20 or below for each of these is excellent, but very few writers initially write as clearly or concisely as this. StyleWriter teaches you the techniques of top-grade journalists, editors and other professional writers and helps you break poor writing habits.

How Can StyleWriter Save Companies Money?

One of the main costs to business is staff time spent drafting documents and the biggest cost is staff time spent reading documents. In fact, many office staff spend 90% of their time simply drafting and reading documents. 

The average manager reads around 15 million work-related words a year! StyleWriter makes the typical document 25% shorter by removing surplus words - this means staff spend 25% less time reading.

Customers and clients can misunderstand long-winded letters and sales material, often tossing them in the bin, rather than struggling to read them. Make every letter a winning letter that's easy to understand.

Complex instructions can lead to misuse of products and frustration among customers. StyleWriter will eliminate jargon from your booklets, making your instructions simple to follow.

How Can StyleWriter Help Individual Writers?

If you're a professional writer, you'll appreciate ways to improve your writing and one of the ways to do this is to cut down on the time you spend trying to catch your own mistakes. StyleWriter highlights over 35,000 language problems, so you can be sure every piece of work you submit is as close to perfect as you can make it.

StyleWriter can help:

  • Advertisers
  • Copywriters 
  • Webmasters
  • Public Relations Staff 
  • Events Organisers 
  • Journalists 
  • Judges 
  • Lawyers 
  • Novelists
  • Scientists 
  • Students 
  • Writers 
  • Editors

You don't have to be a professional writer to benefit from StyleWriter - if you're:

  • still studying 

  • about to enter or re-enter the work force 

  • seeking promotion 

  • launching your own business 

  • taking steps to improve your earning capacity 

  • planning a career change 

  • looking for ways to involve yourself in your local community 

  • planning to compile your family history 

  • about to fulfil a promise to yourself to do something about gaps in your education 

  • impatient to begin work on that novel 

  • ready to write your autobiography 

  • eager to spend time writing now that you've retired 

  • anxious to start a course of self-improvement

Then StyleWriter will help you.

StyleWriter has been designed to do the work of a professional editor - and it will help you no matter what you have to write.

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StyleWriter—What the Reviewers Say

"StyleWriter deserves a place in every business office."
Accountant Magazine

"StyleWriter acts as a professional editor for anyone in business or government who needs to write reports, proposals or press releases. For writing punchy, effective, communicative text, even with your own whimsical style, look no further."
Good Software Guide

"Like having the Chicago Manual of Style at your fingertips... StyleWriter is undoubtedly useful for anyone who writes, not only technical authors. It takes the hard slog out of editing, and draws your attention to stylistic faults you probably didn't know you had. In an ideal world, every technical author would have a copy of it."
The Manual

"Running StyleWriter over one's writing is like a crash course in professional editing. It will not leave one's writing unchanged."
Computers and the Law

"If your writing is less than readable, StyleWriter can give you an English writing trainer, a subeditor and an English teacher on a disk. If you already know how to write, StyleWriter picks up those faults that slip by when you are nudging a deadline."
Bits and Bytes

StyleWriter claims to be something rather special. And indeed it is.
PC News Weekly

By breaking bad writing habits, the program lets editors express themselves in their own words, clearly and concisely, rather than in the stale phrases and impersonal style common in typical office writing.
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StyleWriter—What the Users Say

"StyleWriter's the best thing since sliced sandwiches."
Radio Journalist

"I'm from the Wall Street Journal and need a copy of StyleWriter."
"Do you want to review the package?"
"No—I need it for everything I write."
Press Journalist

"I sent my first book to Random House. They told me it was the first draft they had received that didn't need editing. I'm afraid I didn't tell them I'd used StyleWriter."
Author of school textbooks

"Editors charge about $50 a hour to polish writing. Yet StyleWriter does 80 per cent of the editor's work. I reckon I've saved the cost of the program by running it through just a few of my articles."
Freelance Journalist

Streets ahead of the competition
Computer Programmer

After two months using StyleWriter, I wish to congratulate you on this splendid and useful application. Worth every penny I paid for it!
Freelance Writer

A magnificent program—brilliant—a tour de force
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