Plain English Writing Task Styles in Stylewriter
To select a writing task style:
1. In the main StyleWriter window, go to the Task menu and select the task you want, or
2. In the Statistical Summary window, click on the Writing Task box and select the task you want.
StyleWriter’s long sentence limit and its assessment of your style index, sentence length and passive index will change to reflect the new writing task style.
For General Writing, StyleWriter Software adjusts its statistical measures as follows:
| Style Index | Average Sentance | Passive Index | Long Sentance Limit | |
| Excellent Range | 0-20 | 10-20 | 0-25 | 40 |
StyleWriter also has the following writing task styles to choose from:
21. June 2010 at 15:48
[...] StyleWriter is designed for business, government and academic use. So it doesn’t pick up problems unique to the legal profession, like the abuse of ’shall’ and ’such’ and it questions legal terms that lawyers use correctly, such as ‘novation’ and ‘fiduciary’. You can tailor StyleWriter’s advice for legal documents; I’ve done it myself twice, although it’s not a job for the novice. But if your aim is to write business English, the original lexicon will give useful results even on legal documents. [...]
21. June 2010 at 15:57
[...] StyleWriter is designed for business, government and academic use. So it doesn’t pick up problems unique to the legal profession, like the abuse of ’shall’ and ’such’ and it questions legal terms that lawyers use correctly, such as ‘novation’ and ‘fiduciary’. You can tailor StyleWriter’s advice for legal documents; I’ve done it myself twice, although it’s not a job for the novice. But if your aim is to write business English, the original lexicon will give useful results even on legal documents. [...]
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