alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) (11/01/90)
Hello - I am looking for a grammer and syntax checker that runs under MSDOS. I will need to do a good amount of writing soon, however being a programmer my english isn't really as good as it should be. :-( Please E-mail any references to products, both public domain, shareware and commercial. I will be happy to summarize my findings for the net. Thanks in advance, Alan Warwick alan@dss.com Datability Software Systems New York City -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alan Warwick Datability Software Systems | | alan@doc.dss.com New York City | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) (11/04/90)
In article <4058@pluto.dss.com> alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) writes: > >Hello - > > I am looking for a grammer and syntax checker that runs under MSDOS... ------- Alan, you probably want a spelling checker too. :-) I've heard that both Grammatik and Sensible Grammar are okay. But be warned that grammar checkers are still in their infancy--sort of like OCR was several years ago. They exist, they sorta work--but they're not really up to the job they're trying to do. May I suggest a book? It's called WRITING WITH STYLE, by John R. Trimble. It's a small paperback, probably available in the local college book- store... dark green cover, white title type. It covers everything from tight- ening your prose and writing a convincing argument to punctuation and so on. It's also very entertaining to read, unlike nearly every other writing textbook I can think of. --Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathy Strong : "Welcome to FUBAR Corp., where there's (Clouds moving slowly) : never enough time to do a job right, clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : but always enough time to do it over."