Writing Tips

5 Fantastic Free Tools to Find Mistakes in Your Writing

[Updated October 20, 2022] These tested and easy aids actually help me create the best reading experience in my articles.

Alan Lew
ILLUMINATION
Published in
11 min readOct 13, 2021

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Writing (and editing) has been a part of my entire adult life. As an academic, I spent many hours and days writing my papers and editing and improving those written by others. I also gave many lectures and workshops on how to write for high-impact international journals.

Since my retirement, I have been writing articles for a more general audience. And I have been learning a lot about that market, as well.

Below are some tools that I have used to improve my writing before I publish it. These include:
— [1] Grammar Checkers
— [2] Title Analyzers
— [3] Title Capitalization
— [4] Thesaurus
— [5] Readability

[1] Grammar Checkers

I use grammar checkers on everything that I write nowadays. When I first started using grammar checkers, I used the first 2 (Quillbot & Grammarly) in the way I describe below.

As of Fall 2022, I no longer

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Alan Lew
ILLUMINATION

Anything and Everything is Possible in an Infinite Universe — http://www.AlanLew.com (paywall-free article links)