The art of writing is a valuable skill that helps all people in their professional lives. Today, we will check out how you can improve your writing using AI-based tools. There are many kinds of tools that provide different benefits for writing. As the title suggests, today, we are going to check out just five of them. Without further ado, let’s get on with it.
5 AI Tools for Improving Writing
Here are five tools that can help you improve your writing in various ways.
1. Paraphrase Online
First off, we have an AI-based paraphrasing tool. It is called Paraphrase-Online. This is a freemium tool with five rephrasing modes. This tool can rephrase any given context. Only two of these are available for free. This AI-based paraphraser can understand the content using NLP.
Then, it replaces some words and phrases with their synonyms. The result is a text that reads and sounds different but still has the same meaning as the original. But makes the context more attractive and effective by refrasing it.
This is mainly used for making your writing unique and different. The use of new vocabulary adds some nuance to the write-up. The user also learns this new vocabulary after seeing how it is used. This is the best tool to use when you want to improve the uniqueness of your writing.
Another advantage of Paraphrase-Online is that it can increase the clarity of your write-up. New writers often have this issue where they make their write-up confusing. That can happen due to the following reasons.
- The writer wants to impress the reader, so they deliberately write using advanced English. Advanced English is really confusing and difficult to understand.
- The writer does not know the topic enough to phrase it understandably.
With Paraphrase-Online, this is not an issue, as the tool can remove the complexity and make the text much easier to read and attract readers’ attention.
2. Editpad Plagiarism Checker
The plagiarism checker by Editpad is another freemium tool. It can find out if the given text has any issues with content duplication and copying. In the writing world, using the same wording and phrasing as someone else is unacceptable. It is kind of like stealing someone’s words. But this tool makes your content plagiarism-free.
This becomes more of a problem when writers have to create works on topics that have a lot of history. Sooner or later, they unwittingly copy someone else’s work without even knowing. This is called accidental plagiarism, and it is considered a sign of poor writing.
With the Editpad plagiarism checker, writers can find out whether their works contain plagiarism or not. The process is simple:
- You add your text to the input field of the plagiarism checker and press the “Check Plagiarism” button.
- Then, the tool will search the internet and compare your text with different sources. If any match is found, it will be underlined in red so you can edit or remove it, thereby eliminating plagiarism.
AI aids this process and enables this tool to check whether ideas have been used from other sources. Therefore, it can also help detect paraphrased plagiarism.
3. Grammarly
Bad grammar is one of the most tell-tale signs of poor writing skills. That’s why many budding writers aim to improve their grammar before anything else. However, the grammar issue is that many rules are quite obscure and difficult to remember. It takes a long time to practice them; you can make mistakes even then.
With Grammarly, that is no longer an issue. You can use its extension for live grammar checking or the website to check your work for all grammar issues at once. This freemium tool can detect and correct the following types of Grammar mistakes.
- Spelling errors and typos
- Tense mismatch
- Subject-verb disagreements
- Incorrect or missing punctuation
Its premium version even offers suggestions for enhancing the clarity and conciseness of the text. All grammar errors are underlined in red, and clicking them shows the correction for them. With the use of AI, Grammarly can also detect context-sensitive errors as well. That’s why by using Grammarly, writers can make their writing better in real-time.
4. Hemingway
The Hemingway app is a website that can help writers enhance their writing with respect to readability. Readability is the measure of how easy or difficult it is to read some text. This tool highlights all difficult passages in yellow and red. It also points out how many adverbs and passive voice have been used.
These are all things that make reading more difficult. When writers can identify them, it makes editing them easier, too. The Hemmingway app provides the readability score on the right side of the interface. This score updates in real time so writers can check what works and what doesn’t.
A readable write-up is much better than an unreadable write-up, the reason being, that writing is about communication. So, more readable implies that the communication is clearer.
5. ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a freemium large language model made by OpenAI. It can do a variety of tasks related to writing. For example, writers can ask ChatGPT to grade their work and provide feedback. ChatGPT will check the work for different issues and list them out. If prompted, it can even provide a rewritten version of the text that addresses those issues.
Here is an example. In the following image, we asked ChatGPT to identify issues with the given text.
It generated a response that was quite exhaustive. It can be seen below.
It even went on to provide the revised version of the given text. The output (which can be seen below) was indeed much better than the input.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. ChatGPT can do a lot of tasks. But it is limited by the creativity of your prompts. You need to ask the right questions to get the most out of it. As for other things that you can do with ChatGPT to improve your writing.
- Generate ideas
- Improve readability
- Make content unique
- Check for grammar issues
- Find information for research
And many more.
Conclusion
These five freemium tools are powered by AI and can help you improve your writing. These tools can provide several benefits that relate to proofreading and editing.
With the help of these tools, any writer (especially beginners) can dramatically improve the quality of their writing. Since they can be used in some way for free, just checking them out is a great idea for writers who are unsure whether to invest in them or not.
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