Take your writing to the next level with Slick Write
I'm currently editing all old articles that I have published here on the site and when I look at some of the things that I wrote back then, I can only say that my writing has improved a lot over time. It is still not perfect and most native speakers probably realize at once that I'm not a native speaker, but I'm getting there.
Slick Write is a free web service that is also available as an extension for the Chrome and Firefox web browsers, Open Office, Libre Office, and as a WordPress plugin. Unlike other services of its kind, it is completely free to use without any restrictions, at least for now.
Since it is web-based, you do not really have to install any of the extensions or plugins to get started, and the only thing they add is that they make it more comfortable to submit text to the service.
You can copy and paste up to 200,000 characters into the form on the website, and hit the proofread button afterwards to have the writing analyzed by Slick Write.
From here no out, it is just a matter of switching between the different tabs the service makes available after analysis of the text.
- Stats displays in-depth information about the text. This includes the number of words, word length, sentences and paragraphs, as well as information about the use of adverbs, pronouns, uncommon words or the overall readability index.
- Flow displays a graphical representation of the structural, sentence length and word length flow.
- Structure looks at the sentence structure of the document and displays information about the number of words used. Sentences are color coded so that it is easy to spot sentences that may be too long or too short.
- Critique highlights stylistic features and flows within the document. You can hover the mouse cursor over items highlighted here to receive additional information about them.
- A click on any highlighted words or phrases displays a short description of what is meant by it on the right screen border. You can click on a link that leads to a page that offers additional - in-depth - information.
- Edit allows you to make modifications to the document to correct issues that have been identified by the web application. You do need to hit the proofread button afterwards again to process the changes.
Before you start, click on the configure tab to change preferences. Here you can select what is going to be analyzed by the program. Items are grouped into sections such as professional language, sentences, objectivity or concise language. Here you can remove specific checks that you are not interested in or add new checks that you want included. The service can for instance check for bias language or gender-specific pronouns, something which it does not do by default.
You can use one of the available presets, with fiction being selected by default, if you prefer to not make individual preference changes here.
Slick Write helps you the most if you read the detailed information that it makes available. These do include examples so that it is relatively easy to understand what is being criticized.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.