Plain English Writing Examples

Editorial and Newspaper Articles

"StyleWriter's the best thing since sliced sandwiches."
- Journalist

Journalists go through several years' training to write in a news style. But all journalists benefit from editing. That's why every newspaper and magazine employs editors and subeditors to review and improve the writing style. Most changes made by the editor are to produce a clearer and more effective style, pick up on proofreading mistakes missed by conventional spelling checkers and to check for consistency with the publications house style.

StyleWriter – designed by journalists and editors – encourages the writing style used by journalists. It is also a wonderful editor's tool, offering proofreading checks missed by spelling checkers and allowing an editor to customize the program to check for most errors.

Before Editing with StyleWriter

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After Editing with StyleWriter

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Professional writers find StyleWriter useful in editing their work. Journalists, copywriters and novelists all use the program to improve the clarity and readability of their work. Journalists like StyleWriter's quick review and analysis of their writing. But the feature they usually like most is adding to StyleWriter's advice. In this way, they can check for their publication's house style and writing conventions.

This is what journalists and editors say of the program.

"StyleWriter constantly surprises me.
Just when I think I've produced the clearest possible draft, it comes along and points out a few more ways to improve my style or picks out a hyphenation or word choice error."
- Subeditor

I wish to tell you how valuable a tool your programme is and how, over the years, it has improved my writing.
- Bilingual Magazine Editor

"For me the best feature is adding to the program. I have dozens of preferred spellings, alternatives to industry jargon and words I want to avoid. Adding my advice to the program means I can check for all my editing issues in seconds."
- Newsletter Editor

"You could, for example, add technical words or words used in your profession in your organization's House Style. I could imagine the editor of a computer magazine adding the word 'baud' to remind writers it is often misused for 'bits per second.'"
- Freelance Journalist

"Adding errors you want to find is as easy as using find-and-replace in your word processor. But StyleWriter's secret is that if you ask it to find an error, it remembers to check every document for this error and any other errors you might add."
- Proofreade

To guarantee all your editorials and news articles are in clear, concise and easy-to-read English use StyleWriter