Helping Writers Find the Right Words
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Writers often need help in choosing words. This project is working to develop tools that will help writers by showing them some of the alternative ways by which they can express their ideas.
For writers, a thesaurus can be of help, but the results are often not relevant in the context intended. For common words, the list of suggestions can be very long, yet the right word never seems to be in the list.
Microsoft has a new solution This involves a huge thesaurus that has more than 1 million keywords and key phrases! The size makes it much more likely that you will find a great alternative for pretty much any word or phrase you can think of. The tool can even attempt to rewrite an entire sentence. It will look at all the combinations of words and phrases in your sentence, and suggest replacements for each of them.
The goal of this project isn’t to improve the work of professional writers. This is geared towards everyday writers like you and I… those of us writing emails, blog posts and even term papers for college.
Wouldn’t you like some assistance with finding just the right words?
- The Essential Reference Set: Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary; Roget’s II the New Thesaurus; and, The Essential Writer’s Companion
- Essential Paperback Desk Reference Set: Dictionary/Thesaurus/Writers Companion
- The American Heritage Dictionary, DOS Edition
- Thesaurus Words Checkbook Cover
- Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
- Rogets Super Thesaurus (Rogets)
- Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
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