Day 3 – Writing Challenge – What are the three most important things you cannot live without?
Welcome to the Day 3 of the Writing Challenge. While you all get started and write for today’s challenge and share your most important things, you can also check out the below topic:
Another topic of the day – Top 5 content editing tools
What are the three most important things you cannot live without?
Little things make a great deal in our life. Numerous things are important in our lives, but let us focus today on the three things out of all that makes up for most of our need and attention.
The first thing that comes to my mind is my table clock. That is so much important in my life that it’s always there in front of me. It is a guide that wakes me up in the morning, keeps me on track, and teaches me to wait for nothing and keep going because it’s going to tick out and not wait for you. You better keep going and catch up.
Out of all the most important things, the next one is Books. I am very fond of novels and I read a lot, and that will be evident as you enter my room. I am the kind of reader who may not have completed all the books yet will buy another book to feel alive. The excitement I get when I buy a new book is beyond comparison. I wish I could shrink them all and keep them in my pocket. Kindle can make it possible, but I am talking about the paperback versions.
The third and very nostalgic thing has to be my olive green jacket. Well, it’s been there for more than ten years, and the older it gets, the precious it becomes. It’s like a shield and reminds me that something is always there with me at all times, difficult or smooth. Life sometimes throws me out of the track, and it helps me hang on till the last bit.
With this, Day 3 of the Writing Challenge ends and we can move forward to another topic of the day – “Top 5 content editing tools”. Please share what are the most important things in your life too.
Top 5 content editing tools
Writing is an art, and we learn art gradually. Nowadays, in our busy schedules, editing tools come in handy to perfect our writing projects. It becomes our editing assistant and tells us when and where we go wrong. The editing tools cannot replace the human mind, but they can surely help you tackle multiple projects with set deadlines.
Grammarly is a great tool to check grammar, vocabulary, plagiarism, and auto-suggestions for the alternative better words for your writing projects. You can install the free version, and for more detailed checks, you can upgrade to a premium paid version that provides additional features. I have been using this tool, and it is a helpful tool for editing. It helps create writing pieces free from grammatical errors and comes out stronger in all aspects.
Language preference: You can set up your language preference, and it checks the writing projects accordingly. Below is the process to make the changes in language as per your preference:
Step 1: Click on the menu (top left)
Step 2: Scroll down to language preference and select as required
Setting goals: There is an option to set up the goals related to the audience, formality, domain (premium version), tone, and intent as per the need of the writing projects.
Free version: It provides grammar checks which provide auto-suggestions that you can use. The Premium version is a bit costly.
Premium version: It’s targeted at individuals. Apart from grammar checks, it also provides plagiarism checks, and help from writing experts too. It gives advanced suggestions. The Premium version starts at $11.66 per month.
Business version: It’s targeted at a group of people or teams that can use this tool. The business version starts at $12.50 per member per month.
When you click advanced suggestions, it will highlight the texts with writing issues by underlining them. I have added a section that has some errors so that you can understand better.
Available as Web App, Desktop App for Windows, and Mac. Phone (Android and iOS), and iPad. It is also available as an extension for the following search engines: Chrome and Safari.
This tool helps you check and refine your sentences based on complexity. It indicates which sentences are harder for readers to grasp and which are mildly complex. It also provides suggestions to make your sentences better.
You have the option to switch between write and edit available in the top-right corner. The currently selected option is on white background.
Free version: The online version is free to use, and you can get the app on Desktop for $19.99.
Paid version: You can get the desktop app for $19.99. You can publish your work after editing directly to WordPress and Medium. You also have the option to export to text, PDF, or Word.
Available: Web App, Desktop App for Windows, and Mac.
Ginger helps in content editing by checking grammar, spellings, punctuations, etc. It also works as an extension where you can paste your work and check. It will help you with grammar when you fill out a form or send an email with its auto-suggestion feature to make changes and It also provides users with features of online proofreading, a personal trainer, and an essay checker.
Below is an image that shows the rephrase option in action:
Free version: It provides grammar checks (limited) and it also provides an option to rephrase the sentences. You can check up to 600 words at a time.
Premium version: It provides unlimited checks, and an interesting feature is that it can help translate your work into 40+ languages that are not available in the free version. You can buy a monthly plan at $7.99/month, an Annual plan at $4.99/month, and two years plan at $3.99/month. The current premium plans are lower in cost due to ongoing sales. So check this out.
The translation feature is available only with premium plans.
Available: Web App, Extension for chrome and safari
ProWriting Aid is one of the best editing tools and costly also. It helps users with grammar, plagiarism, diction, better words and helps identify complicated sentences. Its main feature is its integration with Scrivener, MS Word, and Google Docs.
Free version: It gives online-only access, allowed to edit 500 words at a time. It provides a report of issues and allows 19 writing reports.
Premium version: Available at $79 / year. There is no word limit, and it has a desktop version that provides easy integration with Scrivener, MS Word, and Google Docs.
Premium Plus version: Available at $89 per year. It includes plagiarism checks also (50-checks per year).
Available: Web App, Desktop version for PC and Mac.
Paper Rater is another editor that you can use. It helps users to check grammar, plagiarism, and spellings. It also gives an option to check the scoring of essays. Quite a helpful tool for students as it provides a comparative analysis according to your education level.
Free version: Grammar and spelling check. It allows 50 submissions of 5 pages/ submissions and ten plagiarism checks per month.
Premium version: Available at $11.21/month or 71.55/year. Apart from the free features, it also provides file upload (doc, Docx, txt, RTF) and a plagiarism checker integrated into it. It allows 200 submissions per month of 20 pages/submission and 25 plagiarism checks per month. One more advantage with this is it is ad-free.
The below image shows where you can paste your work as a free user and upload the file as a premium user. You have the mandatory option to choose education level since it gives a comparative study according to your education level.
Below is an image that shows the analysis report – on clicking one of the analysis parameters –Style
You can try and use the content editing tools that I talked about that closely fulfill your requirements. Most importantly, it gets your work done with ease.
Available: Web App
Hopefully, this article shall help you to enhance your writing projects, and also, the Writing Challenge is helping you keep up your writing practice. The Writing Challenge is one of the most important things to build a habit of becoming better at our skills.
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