Edit for brevity & simplicity in Microsoft Word & Outlook
Our best writing tip? Edit for clarity and brevity with WordRake. It’s an automated in-line editor that checks for needless words, cumbersome phrases, clichés, and more.
It’s Saturday. Mid-morning. The market bursts with chicory and kohlrabi and chevre from only ten miles away. Signs sprout like the produce: leek’s, beet’s, brussel sprout’s. And it’s okay if a farmer mistakenly sticks an apostrophe into a word meant to be a simple plural: a sign for turnip’s will not prevent us from buying good ones.
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As I learned in the third grade, a preposition is, "anything the little bird can do to the house." It can fly over the house, around the house, to the house, through the house.
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Many of our sentences hit the cliff and keep on going into free fall, ending in a pile of useless or already understood information. Examine the last few words before every period and ask yourself if they are necessary. Often the answer is no; if they form a prepositional phrase (or two), the odds increase you can delete them.
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“Adverse” refers to a thing, like a judge’s ruling. “Averse” refers to a person, like you. “Averse” is always followed by “to” (or a period).
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WordRake takes you beyond the merely grammatical to the truly great—the quality editor you’ve always wanted. See for yourself.
WordRake is editing software designed by writing expert and New York Times bestselling author Gary Kinder. Like an editor or helpful colleague, WordRake ripples through your document checking for needless words and cumbersome phrases. Its complex algorithms find and improve weak lead-ins, confusing language, and high-level grammar and usage slips.
WordRake runs in Microsoft Word and Outlook, and its suggestions appear in the familiar track-changes style. If you’ve used track changes, you already know how to use WordRake. There’s nothing to learn and nothing to interpret. Editing for clarity and brevity has never been easier.
