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Web Content Enjoyneering

Useful resources to help you write kick-ass blog posts.

(Resources in Italian and English)

Suggestions for additional tools and resources to include on this page are welcome!

Styleguides

Tools to craft perfect titles



Real-time feedback on your writing

Real-time feedback tools to improve your writing by checking your text against databases of properly written language.

They can be used in conjunction with any writing tool like MS Word, Google Docs to. 

  • Check how often your selected text is found in the language database, and see how it is used in context.
  • Translate from any language into English.
  • Enter two text passages and compare how often they are found in the database and how they are used in context.
  • Find out which words are used most often in a gap in your selected text.
  • See which synonyms of a given word are used most often in your selected text.
Writefull

Writefull is a light-weight app that provides feedback on your writing by checking your text against databases of correct language.

You can use Writefull in any writing tool - from MS Word to Gmail. Simply select a piece of text, hit the short-key to activate the Writefull popover, and choose one of its five options.

Writefull uses Natural Language Processing and the three language databases to give you feedback.



Ludwig
Ludwig

Ludwig is a smart translator and linguistic search engine which helps you to find the perfect word or sentence to express your ideas

Ludwig is a gigantic database with millions of correct English sentences and an algorithm specialized in language so that you can compare any of your English phrases with a set of similar correct and contextualized ones. 


Read also: Ludwig: a pretty awesome resource for web writers - Terminology Coordination Unit - European Parliament 


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