There are many software options on the market.
The right software, however, can take you far.
While nothing beats a human editor, no one wants to hire an editor for every email and memo. For that, we need a nuanced editorial eye. But those features can’t help with subtler but critical writing issues: excess wordiness or terminology that might confuse the reader. Technology has moved us in this direction by integrating spelling and grammar checking into our writing environments. Why not embed careful revision into your writing process for everything? So we send out our work with imperfections, excess words, remnants of messy thought processes-small glitches that add to the reader’s cognitive load.Įven if your writing doesn’t have glaring errors, why pass up an opportunity to present your ideas with crystal clarity? We realize that revision is important, but we’re in a hurry.Īs long as we think of revision as an ‘extra’ process outside of writing, we’re tempted to skip it. Most of us understand that great writing happens through revision.
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