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Editor: an Editing and Proofreading Program
"A lifesaving program to show you how much you've forgotten about good writing."
— Pat W. Kirk, author and publisher
Editor 5.0 is out. See the "What's New" page for details.
Editor finds more than 200,000 common writing errors and problems in more than 50 categories of punctuation, spelling, grammar,
usage, and style. With its comprehensive databases, sophisticated analysis routines, and
writer-friendly interface,
Editor far outperforms other editing programs in the number of problems it identifies and the accuracy of its comments.
Editor does not base its suggestions on dubious statistical norms. It does not impose discredited
Zombie Rules
or offer haphazard lists of homonyms and synonyms as
writing enhancements.
It is not a click-to-fix editing program;
in most cases, Editor points out problems and raises questions rather than imposing answers. Writers do the
editing and remain the judges of what they want to say.
An extensive comparative study
shows that even the best performers among other editing programs correct fewer than 35% of the grammatical errors that a good
human editor would find in the test documents. Editor corrects more than 70%. (Computer programs
cannot find errors that depend not on words but on their meanings.) Typically, more than 40% of other editing
programs’ comments on a text are miscorrections or mistakes. Editor is wrong less than 10% of the time.
British and American writers benefit from Editor’s extensive knowledge of both major dialects of English. It finds
thousands of writing mistakes specific to each dialect as well as many tens of thousands common to both, and can help writers
used to one dialect who want to write in the other.
Editor is flexible: any of its categories of analysis can be turned off or on to suit a particular writer’s needs
and habits. And it is affordable at only $55 for the
Standard version
or $75 for the
Word Add-In version.
Editor cannot teach you how to write, but it can help you write better. Download the
free ten-day trial
and find out for yourself why
serious reviewers
like Editor and why
our customers say
that Editor helps them write successful papers, prepare books for publication, and save money.
The rollovers in the sidebar are illustrations and do not all reproduce Editor's comments exactly.
Last revised 25 April 2015
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Word and WordPerfect do not recognize the following problems. Slide
your cursor down this column for a digest of Editor's comments.
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She said, “Stop shouting, for goodness sakes!” |
| It is time to put-down childish things. |
We lost up to thirty soldiers or more in the firefight. |
They anticipate the speech to be amusing. |
| To all intense and purposes, the revolution is over. |
It is literally impossible to get there before dark. |
He should be ashamed of himself. |
| One should love ones neighbors. |
Neither of our automobiles have snow tires. |
The court’s decision set a key precedence. |
I got money from the ATM machine. |
In the 1990’s, the stock market soared. |
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