For Linguix actually enables you to become a better writer: someone who is able to reach your audience in the right way with the correct style and choice of words. 

As well as all the benefits of the Linguix free Chrome extension, also available on Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, the Linguix web tool, accessible on the webpage, allows you to enter any text into the ‘Document’ feature, as displayed on the left-hand column.

Here you can start writing whatever it is you wish to put together, or you could simply copy and paste something that you have written elsewhere.

Here, all your written mistakes will be underlined, and suggestions will be made. Here are just some of the common mistakes that will be highlighted:

• Casing – any issues with using, or not using, capital letters.
• Grammar – any grammatical mistakes or errors that you may have made.
• Punctuation – those all-too-familiar issues with periods, commas etc.
• Redundancy – words, or phrases, that may have been included, but which may be totally unnecessary.
• Style – is the style of your writing – the vocabulary for example – suitable for your chosen audience?
• Typos – any spelling mistakes you may have made in your text.

By simply hovering over the word or phrase that is underlined, the style of mistake that has been made will be named, and then possible corrections will be offered.

You are also given, on the right-hand side, a quick overview of how many of these types of mistakes are included in your text. 

In this way, you can quickly begin to learn from your common mistakes, avail of the correct options, and instantly improve the quality of your writing. Indeed, what you learn over time from these corrections is equally as valuable.

Statistics and Audience

On the right-hand side of this ‘Document’ page, however, is something equally as valuable for your writing.

First of all, you will be given a ‘Statistics’ report.

Click on this option and you will be given some incredibly relevant information:

• Document Statistics – the number of characters, the number of words, the number of sentences, the average reading time of the text, and the average speaking time.
• Readability – the average length of the words you use (including whether this is average, below average, or above average), the average sentence length, in words, (including whether this is average, below average, or above average), and the Readability score.

The Readability score is based on the universally respected Flesch–Kincaid Readability Test, which indicates the complexity of a piece of writing. This score (out of 100) will then be qualified by a short synopsis, indicating what level of reader the text is suitable for.

The power of this information is obvious: you can immediately use all of this detailed information to not only improve the quality of your writing (in terms of the number of mistakes) but also adapt your writing so that it meets the needs of your desired audience.

You can access this statistics from our browser extension as well:

But Linguix is not done, because there is also an ‘Audience’ tool.

The ‘Audience’ tool is where you actively edit the parameters in terms of the type of audience you are hoping to reach. 

For instance, you can select the traits for readability, including such options as ‘general’, or ‘knowledgeable’, or even something more advanced such as ‘specialist’, ‘academic’ or even ‘genius’.

You can also select ‘your goal’, which as the name would suggest, means you can select the option which best fits your objective of your writing: ‘storytelling’, ‘promotion’ and ‘call to action’ are just some of the options.

Finally, you can select the relevant emotion of your writing, such as ‘calm’ or ‘exciting’.

In manipulating these parameters in the best way possible to suit your intended style of writing, the performance report can then truly assess your writing against your objective, making sure that you are not producing writing that contains no mistakes, but does exactly what its purpose is.

That is how the Linguix writing tool can improve your writing. 

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Here’s why you should, and how it can be done:

Linguix readability scores

Linguix offers a readability score to your written text that is within the content editor. You may have seen readability scores before on the likes of WordPress, but what exactly is Linguix’s readability score? How it is ascertained, and what does it mean for your writing?

It’s a simple premise. The readability score is a numerical score, measured from 0 to 100, and it is based on formulas known universally as the Flesch reading ease test. The Flesch test is a universally accepted scale for ascertaining the reading ease of a text, with a score of 100 representing a simple sentence with no words with more than two syllables.

Generally speaking, a Flesh readability score of between 60 and 70 is acceptable for web content, but then it depends on exactly what it is that you are writing.

And so, the Linguix readability score enables you to understand the complexity of your test, allowing you to tailor it for your audience as is required. This is a fundamental part of producing effective content, just as important as correct grammar and spelling, which Linguix’s writing assistant also proofs, offering guidance and suggestions as needed.

Selecting a writing goal on Linguix

Perhaps the most essential consideration when setting out on your text is the knowledge of who your audience is. In marketing, this is the golden rule: know your audience. And when it comes to producing an effective written context, the pretext is the same.

Selecting your goal on Linguix is fundamentally related to knowing your audience. First, you must select the knowledge base of your audience (so, for example, are they experts on the content, or not?). Once you have selected between the simple options, it next comes down to what is known in the language business as register, but what is identified by Linguix conveniently as formality. Here there are three simple options: informal, neutral and formal.

Your final option is your purpose. So, is this text for business, for leisure, for academic purposes, or for something else. Select accordingly.

Once you have chosen these options as desired, you have set your goals on Linguix. The text that you then enter is measured against these goals, and recommendations are made based on the results. Quite simply, in this way, you can ensure that the text you have produced is suitable for the audience and purpose for which it is intended. That’s how smart the Linguix writing tool is.

Linguix emotions

There’s one final, extremely useful step, and that all boils down to tone. What emotion do you wish to exude through your text? Is it supposed to be entertaining, funny, serious, friendly, or neutral? Again, depending on what you select, Linguix’s machine learning and AI-driven tool alert you to any inconsistencies that occur with your chosen emotion.

And that, as they say, is that. Not only will you be able to produce content that is free form grammatical and lexical errors, spelling mistakes and punctuation mishaps, but content that is actually highly suitable to the set requirements. That’s a smart tool.

Take the quality and suitability of your writing to a higher level with Linguix.

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