A shot of Expresso - Improve your writing style with this handy tool
- Written by Jelzoo Jim
Writing well is difficult to master, and various techniques to improve your style can be hard to implement. Now, there’s a tool that can put those techniques into practice for you, highlighting any weak spots, making editing simpler.
Expresso is a webapp that can quickly improve the quality of your writing by helping you find areas where you can make stylistic changes. Over time, you’ll develop an eye for awkward phrasing and be able to fix it on the fly.
A handy use of this tool is to use it to analyse great writing from other writers. When you spot a piece that you recognise as being incredibly well written, you can copy and paste it into the app, and make a note of the metrics. You could then try and match your metrics to theirs.
Here are some metrics for this article:
| weak verbs | 26.3% |
| filler words | 1.9% |
| nominalizations | 2% |
| entity substitutions | 25.5% |
| negations per sentence | 0 |
| clustered nouns | 0 |
| passive voice per sentence | 0 |
| modals | 4.5% |
| rare words | 9% |
| extra long sentences | 0 |
| extra short sentences | 0 |
| frequent words (stems) |
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| characters | 867 |
| words | 156 |
| vocabulary size | 87 |
| sentences | 9 |
| words per sentence | 17.3 |
| syllables per word | 1.4 |
| characters per word | 4.4 |
| readability grade | 7.6 |
| nouns | 24.4% |
| pronouns | 10.9% |
| verbs | 24.4% |
| adjectives | 5.8% |
| adverbs | 4.5% |
| other parts of speech | 30.1% |
| declarative sentences | 88.9% |
| interrogative sentences | 0% |
| exclamative sentences | 0% |
| stopwords | 51.3% |
Give it a go at expresso-app.org
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Jelzoo Jim
Jim is the founder and head honcho here at Jelzoo and has his hands in everything we do from design and formatting, to newsletters and marketing, and everything in-between. He's also a bit of a poet but doesn't like to talk about it.
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