Write-good

Jul 20, 2023

Naive linter for English prose

write-good is a naive linter for English prose. For example, it is able to check for the following issues in text

  • passive voice
  • lexical illusions – cases where a word is repeated
  • “so” at the beginning of the sentence
  • “there is” or “there are” at the beginning of the sentence
  • weasel words
  • adverbs that can weaken meaning really, very, extremely, etc.
  • wordy phrases and unnecessary words
  • common cliches


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