[comp.text] Writing style analysis

spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (01/31/90)

>>>>> On 30 Jan 90 20:26:29 GMT, dfk@grad12.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz) said:
 > A few years ago I used two programs on a Vax running Mt Xinu Unix
 > called 'style' and 'diction'. One of these flagged phrases in the text
 > that were wordy or poor style, and the other analyzed the writing
 > quality in some quantitative way. 

 > Is there a version of these programs that I can get (for free) to run
 > under Sun Unix? I really would like the program that flagged wordy
 > phrases. 
they are part of the Writers Workbench (wwb). used to be bundled with
Unixes, but now a separate package from AT&T. ask you Sun salesman

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