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Improve Your Writing in English

Jun 6th, 2008, in IM Posts, Internet, Products, by

Keyboard Using software to improve your written English, auto-correction of grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes.


Particularly if you're Indonesian and want to write in English, or you have to for some reason, and you are worried about spelling and grammar mistakes in your writing then Whitesmoke's "All-in-One English Writing and Grammar Software" may be the answer to your problems. Or for anyone, like me perhaps, who needs some help with there grammar and speeling.

How it Works

Once the software is installed you designate a key on your keyboard as the "Whitesmoke" key, when you hit that key the program will scan your writing, whether it's in a browser, notepad, Word, an email, or whatever, and checks it for mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and then offers corrections.

Software Features

  • Grammar Checker
  • Spell Checker
  • Dictionary and Thesaurus
  • AutoCorrect

There is also a feature called "text enrichment", which essentially takes what you have written and smartens it up a bit, making you seem cleverer and having better English skills than you may actually have. This could be very useful, the way you write can have a huge impression on how others view you.

See a demo of it.

Pricing ranges from $80-$125 for most of the versions, and then the "Executive Package" goes up to $250, if you're an executive. This is the list of their products, sort of from cheapest to most expensive.

  • General Writing
  • Business Writing
  • Creative Writing
  • Legal Writing
  • Biotech (Medical) Writing
  • Executive Package

So if English is not your first language (or even if it is and you suck at grammar), and you need or want your writing to make a good impression on people, then the Whitesmoke software could well be for you. Find out more about the "#1 English Grammar & Writing Software".


11 Comments on “Improve Your Writing in English”

  1. avatar TheWrathOfGrapes says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 7:03 am

    Spell Check Poem

    Also know as…
    The Pullet Surprise Can Did Ate

    (Read it out loud!)

    Eye halve a spelling chequer
    It came with my pea sea,
    It plainly marques four my revue
    Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

    Eye strike a key and type a word
    And weight for it two say,
    Weather eye and wring oar write
    It shows me strait a weigh.

    As soon as a mist ache is maid
    It nose bee fore two long,
    And eye can put the error rite
    Its rare lea ever wrong.

    To rite with care is quite a feet
    Of witch won should bee proud,
    And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
    Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

    Eye have run this poem threw it
    Your sure reel glad two no,
    Its letter perfect awl the weigh
    My chequer tolled me sew.

    -Sauce unknown

  2. avatar aJ says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Ms Office has in-build grammer checker.

  3. avatar Achmad Sudarsono says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Patoeng,

    You naughty boy, you. I hope this isn’t surreptitious marketing…

    Does it really help writing ?

    What’s wrong with:

    - Reading the text aloud
    - Old fashioned computer spellcheck.
    - Fowler’s Guide to English Usage

    On the other hand, having a program point things out might help you remember the rules through repetition.

  4. avatar kinch says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Sounds very dodgy to me.

    One of our resident post-modernists should write a dissertation on the talismanic value of the word ‘Executive’ in South-East Asian Cultures.

  5. avatar janma says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    I saw a sign on an Indian lift that said “Today we regret you will be unbearable.”
    And lets not forget the famous POLDA billboard that graced Bali’s streets for a good year…. “MENJAUHI NARKOBA. HIDE YOUR DRUGS!”

  6. avatar David says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    In a certain city in eastern Java there’s been a long-running campaign for “Safety Riding” going on, see, the police everywhere in Indonesia could use Whitesmoke’s stuff, so consider this post as a sort of public service announcement, Achmad. (On the police, once at a major intersection, late afternoon, there was a grown-man policeman standing there with a sign hanging around his neck that said ‘turn your lights on now’, it was in Indonesian, but just funny.)

    As for “surreptitious marketing”, I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “I’ve got kids to feed”, or maybe you’d like to know how much time and money this thing costs to keep going, but, anyway, if any of the regulars here have also got kids to feed and have got something to sell, service/product, I’m happy to do some “surreptitious marketing” for them as well.

  7. avatar Achmad Sudarsono says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Pak Patoeng,

    Wasn’t a jibe, just a sincere question..: P Might be worth getting the software. No one would begrudge you squeezing some coin out of this fine venture.

    The people who do subtitles for pirated movies could do with the software, no doubt. I saw one version of Hamlet’s soliloquoy (spelling), wihch said:

    “I am soybean cake. Is many to soybean cake to soybean. That is a question. I am soybean cake.”

  8. avatar dewaratugedeanom says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Patung,

    As for “surreptitious marketing”, I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “I’ve got kids to feed”, or maybe you’d like to know how much time and money this thing costs to keep going, but, anyway, if any of the regulars here have also got kids to feed and have got something to sell, service/product, I’m happy to do some “surreptitious marketing” for them as well.

    You just blew my cover. My posts here in IM are in fact nothing but advertising and ‘surreptitious marketing’. I may (presumably) not have kids to feed but I do have a service to sell, so free exposure in a worldwide popular forum comes in handy. Keeping oneself in shape and marketable doesn’t come cheap, you know. There is gym subscription, Rasta hairstyling, Oakley sunglasses, Billabong board shorts, Hugo Boss fragrance, pulsa for the Nokia, medical checks… These darn sheilas are becoming more and more demanding and living up to one’s professional integrity is a relentless task.
    Thank you and yours sincerely.

  9. avatar Janma says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Dewa, just in case you didn’t know… billabong has a huge sale on now…. ;)

  10. avatar Erma says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    I sure need grammar checker. Is it available here, in Jakarta?

  11. avatar David says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    Erma, no, it is the sort of thing you have to buy online, like with a credit card, or maybe they take Paypal.



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