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An awesome list of resources and tools for writers.

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Tools

  • Grammarly - A writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback.
  • Antidote - A writing corrector analyzes your text and flags any detections.
  • LanguageTool - An open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly. Free OSS
  • HemingwayApp - An editor that helps make your writing bold and clear.
  • Writefull - An editor that helps you revise your text using AI.
  • Expresso App - An interactive tool to analyze, edit and compare text styles in English created by Mikhail Panko. Free OSS
  • Proselint - A command-line utility that collects best practices and common writing errors from several different language guides. Free OSS
  • Pandoc - A Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another. Free OSS
    • Academic Markdown - A Python wrapper over Pandoc with specialized extensions to parse certain elements, making it a superset of Pandoc Markdown flavour.
    • Pandoc filters - A list of addons to pandoc which implement extra features such as citations and cross-references.
    • Panflute - Pythonic alternative to John MacFarlane's pandocfilters.
  • Vale - A customizable linting through customized style rules. Free OSS
  • Alex - A command-line utility that finds gender favoring, polarizing, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing in text. Free OSS
  • OneLook - A collection of tools for improving your writing. It includes a thesaurus, reverse dictionary, and related words search. Free

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Blogs

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Style Guides

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Books

  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  • Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  • Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
  • Why I Write by George Orwell
  • Scene & Structure by Jack M. Bickham
  • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
  • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

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Courses

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Technical Writing Courses

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Miscellaneous

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License and contributions

Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines! Thanks goes to these contributors!

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