May 14, 2018

5 Online tools for effective and better copywriting

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A major portion of the current generation uses internet as their source of information. As per estimations, around 51% of the world population constitutes the internet user base. Majority of this internet user base are students and working professionals who are hugely dependent on information provided by internet to create papers and presentations. So, it becomes vital for copy-writers and creators to keep this information error-free. However, in the lengthy process of Copy creation and copywriting, it sometimes turns out to be too much on their plate to keep a close tab on Grammar and framing of sentences. Moreover, with plethora of information on internet, the chances of redundancy also increase, which in turn increases the chances of plagiarism. But, you can cut down on your manual effort on monitoring these things with help of some tools available online and concentrate more on copy-writing instead.

So, here are some language tools and applications that can help you in flawless and error-free copywriting:

  1. Grammarly for copywriting

Though most word processors have a spell-check function, this does not always check for grammatical accuracy. Grammarly comes to your rescue, and also has an application called Grammarly keyboard for mobile phones. Its proofreading and plagiarism tools keep a check on about 250 grammar rules.

  1. Ginger

Ginger, just like Grammarly, catches grammatical and phonetic errors. Apart from correcting mistakes, it also learns from mistakes. This is particularly useful for non-native English users as it keeps track of frequently made errors. Ginger comes with a dictionary, a sentence rephraser, and a translation tool.

  1. Hemingway

The Hemingway tool helps identify long and complicated sentences so you can make them easier to read. A yellow highlight means the sentence needs to be split and a red highlight means it’s too dense to be easily understood. The app helps resolve these by providing alternative options. It also has a metric that shows how readable the material is – the lower the score, the better.

  1. Reverse Dictionary

We often have a lot of information in our heads but cannot find the right words to express our thoughts. Reverse dictionary is a tool that asks for a phrase to describe the word you have in mind, and it will suggest multiple words that it thinks matches the description you provided.

  1. Copyscape

Copyscape is a plagiarism checker tool which prevents duplicate data. It helps you to detect whether your content is plagiarised or not. Copyscape analyses the entire pages and can easily detect matched pages, passages, paragraphs and even matched sentences.