7 Tools That Will Help Improve Your Writing Quality And Focus

As a writer, you have to make your own discoveries when it comes to personal written quality, your consistency as a writer, your voice and your self-motivation techniques. No matter what you read or hear, there is simply no system that works well for one person and just as well for another. Some writers work to a timer, others work to a checklist, others write for a day until they burnout and others limit themselves to a certain word count and then call it quits for a week. This article features tools you can incorporate into your personal writing paradigm.

1 - Essaymama.com

The EssayMama blog is a great resource for writers and academics because it is filled with guides and help, and it is updated very frequently with new information from qualified writers and people that write essays for a living. They work as writers in the real world and so are able to give you genuinely useful tips that you can use what writing yourself. These tips also include how to stay focused and how to avoid distractions. They also include ways you can improve your writing from everything you need to know about the written word to how to improve your writing speed. Plus, you get to read the tips of the trade from people that do this sort of thing for a living.

2 - Rhymezone

Whether you are trying to make a catchy introduction or write a marketing tag-line, rhyming can suck up hours of your productive time. It is no longer a problem with this tool as it will come up with the rhymes for you. It makes creating rhyming text so easy that you can elevate the quality of your writing by adding in simple rhymes that people will enjoy--and for you it has never been easier thanks to this simple tool. You can enter the letters you want rhyming or the words you want rhyming and it shows you suggestions that suit.

3 - The Student Edition Grammar Review

This is a directory of the mistakes you may have made within your text. They are all given their actual English names so that when you see them on spelling and grammar checkers you can look them up with this website. It is not a fun resource to use, but it is of a high quality and it is set out better than most books on the subject. The website did it right by putting the grammatical concepts into easy links on the left. A student doesn’t have to read paragraphs of text to find the solution to his or her problem.

4 - GrammarBase

Improve your writing quality with this tool as it will pick through your errors and point them out to you. It also points out the words you may have used incorrectly. It is clever when it comes to improving focus too, but in a roundabout way, as it allows you to write in a far less hinged manner. You can write like a thing possessed without having to concentrate on the quality of your text as you do it. You then run your text through the tool and correct it. It allows you the freedom to write without boundaries because you know you can correct it after the first draft.

5 - Online StopWatch

Stay focused, frosty and sharp with one of the twenty tools listed on this website. You can time yourself to see how long your projects take, or set a time limit with one of the tools to help you keep your eyes on the prize. You can set intervals to sound effects of your choice and then have them go off at the interval times of your choice. You could have nice noises set off every ten minutes when there is lots of time on the clock, and have alarms go off when there are only a few minutes left. Your final interval could be clapping hands, which would help celebrate that you got your work done within your allotted time.

6 - Diff Checker

Research can be difficult because lots on things written elsewhere are phrased perfectly. It is difficult to reword the text in order to express it as well as you read it. If you accidentally, or purposefully, copied slices of text verbatim then you can see where you did it with this free tool. You enter the original research in one section of the tool and you enter your work into the other section. It compares the text and highlights the bits that are the same and different within the text. You can see where your research has slipped into plagiarism so that you may correct your work. Plagiarized work is of the lowest quality and that includes when you have done it by accident, so you may avoid that fate by checking your work with the original before handing it over to a professor or posting it to the Internet.

7 - Spreeder

This is a fun tool that allows you to read things at a much faster rate than you normally would. It is a tool that works on the principle that we are able to absorb words a lot faster than we actually read them, so it flashes up the word for you so you have to read them at the rate it sets. It tasks some getting used to, but it helps improve your focus and helps you read through your research a lot quicker.