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Editing Tools: should I upgrade to the premium version of prowritingaid or stick with the freebie?
Hi All,
I've been using the free version of prowritingaid for the last 6 weeks and have found it really helpful with my first major edit. I'm tempted to upgrade to the Premium version so that I can use the word add-in but I don't want to spend the $35 if it's not worth it.
Has anyone else upgraded? Is it worth the money? Are the additional reports helpful? Or is there another free program that I should be using instead?
Advice and experience would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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If it's a one off payment, it's £22.32 in pounds, it's not a huge amount.
BUT if it's in dollars, will it for instance give you American spellings, and will it have an English vocabulary?
I've never used that or anything similar, so can't help.
Sorry not heard of it, so can't offer any advice.
Can't say I'm familiar with it either, but presumably it will just pick up textual errors. Maybe human eyes would be more useful for further editing in terms of picking up inconsistencies, unrealistic voice, etc.
Thanks for the replies. I agree that a computer definitely can not replace an actual human editor!
Like happy_author, though, I find that running it through the prowritingaid app first helps get rid of all the passive voice, adverbs, redundancies, etc. so that when I do give it to a human editor, they don't get distracted by all those annoying technical things that are easy for the programme to catch.
I like the idea of using it directly within word. Copying it into the website is a bit of a chore. Maybe I'll try it. Liz is right that £22 isn't much of a risk.