Virtual Writing Tutor Review

Vocabulary Checker Tools

Virtual Writing Tutor provides a set of tools that helps students and professionals evaluate their vocabulary. Using these tools, they will be able to check the types of words present in their text and refine their word choice. These vocabulary checker tools are divided into four sets: academic and conversation vocabulary, cliches and power words, field-related vocabulary, and target structures.

Academic  English Versus Conversational English

Let’s take a closer look at the function of each vocabulary checker tool or option. The tool for academic and conversational vocabulary identifies and generates a list of words that make a text academic or conversational. For instance, there are some verbs that are common in conversational English but rare in academic English: try, buy, put, pay, bring, meet, play, run, eat, watch, pick, and wear. With this tool, users will be able to choose the right words for their academic papers, blog posts, or fiction stories.

Eliminate Cliches And Use Power Words

To write engaging blogs, Virtual Writing Tutor provides bloggers with a tool that helps them point out cliches. Cliches are overused expressions that can make a content sound boring. Through the aid of its cliche and power word checker tool, bloggers will also be able to find the words in their writing that can elicit emotional responses in readers.

Field-Related Vocabulary

Another vocabulary checker tool available in the program is the field-related vocabulary. This tool is ideal for those who want to enrich their vocabulary with words that are used in specific fields of study. It looks for matches between words in a text and the 47 fields of study on FieldStudy.com. Also, the tool lets them access field-related readings, glossaries, and audios which are linked to every match it finds.

Target Structures

The target structure checker tool enables students to check for a list of words in a writing that needs to follow specific structures. As an example, teachers may require students to use particular prepositions, past tense verbs, transition words, or adverbs as they prepare their assignments or thesis papers. Using this tool, students can check whether such words are found in their writing.

Grammar Checking

Virtual Writing Tutor features a grammar checker that users can access by clicking on the Check Grammar button within the program. After that, all they need to do is to enter the text in the text area and click the same button; and the program will automatically check for grammar mistakes.

The grammar checker also detects common punctuation errors, contextual spelling errors, word choice errors, and ESL grammar errors. After the program captures the errors, it displays suggestions below the text area. Thus, users can determine why they made those errors and view hints on how they can fix them.

Avoid Plagiarism Using Paraphrase Checker

Plagiarism is a mortal sin especially in journalism; and to avoid committing it, someone needs to learn how to paraphrase effectively. Hence, Virtual Writing Tutor offers a feature that aims to avoid plagiarism and helps users improve their paraphrasing skills. This feature is called Paraphrase Checker. Paraphrase Checker allows students and writers to automatically compare the text they created to the text owned by original authors. It underlines the common words and phrases between the texts and gives a score to rate their similarity.

Create Outlines For Essays

To create persuasive essays, Virtual Writing Tool has an essay outliner that lets students prepare outlines for their essays. The essay outliner enables students to create outlines for opinion essays, prioritized list essays, and argument essays. To make an outline, students can select from the three tools they can access in the essay outliner. Additionally, they will be able to save an outline they created and revise it anytime.

Grammar Checking API Service

To wrap up, the program provides a grammar checking API that lets developers add grammar and spelling checking capabilities to their website. With this API, websites that are offering proofreading or  English language learning services will be able to take advantage of the features and tools available in the program.