STYLEWRITER

StyleWriter – edit your writing and gain the Clear Writing Award

StyleWriter is our flagship product – designed to help everyone write in clear, plain English.  We designed StyleWriter to put a plain English editor on every desk to show authors how to write in a clear, easy-reading style.  It changes the way businesses, government agencies and academia write.  It breaks bad writing habits common in workplace writing.

StyleWriter highlights problems, measures and rates the readability and writing style and offers editing advice and graphs to show you where and how to improve your draft document. StyleWriter also finds and measures words and sentences that make the readers’ job easier and more enjoyable such as interesting verbs, nouns, names, conversational style, pronouns, direct questions and short sentences.

StyleWriter highlights:

• • Words you can change or cut to simplify your style so your reader effortlessly understands your message.
  • Long, complex and wordy sentences to help you trim the fat and write clearly and concisely.
  • Passive and hidden verbs which make writing tedious, long-winded and ambiguous.
  • Jargon such as acronyms, difficult, unusual and unknown words and abstract phrases.
  • Questionable words such as spelling variants and errors that fool other proofreading tools.

StyleWriter’s measures of a clear writing style

StyleWriter has eight measures of writing style. From a weighted average of these measures, the program works out its Clarity Index.

• • Average Sentence – a key statistic.
  • Passive Verbs – an overused style fault.
  • Style Index – a measure of plain English style.
  • Bog Index – a measure of all style and readability issues.
  • Reading Grade – an improved, standard measure of writing.
  • Jargon – a measure of acronyms, jargon phrases and specialist words.
  • Glue – a measure of wordy style.
  • Pep – a measure of reader interest and engagement.
  • Clarity Index – a measure used to award the Clear Writing Style seal.

StyleWriter can measure the clarity of writing.  Using a database of 500,000 graded words and a comprehensive word, phrase, and pattern style guide, it accurately assesses the readability, clarity and style of your draft and gives you a Clarity score.  A perfect score is 100.

To place the Seal on your document you must score above 70 on the Clarity Index. Our research consistently shows most workplace writing is poorly written and difficult to understand.  Only 10 percent of the writing meets the Clear Writing Standard.

Many organizations buy 1,000+ user StyleWriter licenses to change how employees communicate with colleagues and customers. Our corporate customers include:

• • Environmental Protection Agency – 1,000-user license
  • Farm Credit Administration – Enterprise License
  • Federal Aviation Administration – 1,000-user license
  • Halifax-Bank of Scotland – 1,500-user license Read Review
  • Dentons (legal firm) – 800-user license
  • City of Los Angeles – 2,400-user license

For these organizations to invest $100,000 to $250,000 in software to improve writing style – the program has to be impressive.

	Case Study: Halifax Bank of Scotland This major financial institution uses StyleWriter, a customized house style and the Writing Course to transform the way employees wrote to customers.
	Case Study: Dentons The world’s largest global law firm uses StyleWriter to change the way its lawyers wrote, breaking the poor habits typically found in all legal drafting.

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Clear Writing Club – promoting excellence in academic, business and government writing style.