Is your writing flabby or fit? Enter a writing sample of 100 to 1000 words and click run the test.
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ATTENTION USERS: Please note that the WritersDiet Test is an automated feedback tool, not an assessment tool. The test identifies some of the sentence-level grammatical features that most frequently weigh down academic prose. It is not designed to judge the overall quality of your writing — or anyone else's. For further information and caveats, please read this page.
The test automatically excludes in-text citations and all other parenthetical text. Tick this box if you want items inside parentheses to be included in the word count.
The test automatically includes all text in single quotes. Tick this box if you want items inside single quotation marks to be excluded from the word count.
The test automatically includes all text in double quotes. Tick this box if you want items inside double quotation marks to be excluded from the word count.
If you use certain keywords frequently (e.g. education,
organization), you can exclude them from the word count by typing them into the text box.
Wildcards can be used:
* stands for any letters (so *tion means any word ending in tion),
? for a single letter (so w??sh means any five letter word starting with w and ending in sh), and
[abc] for letters listed between brackets (so organi[sz]ation matches both British and American spelling).
Please note that you may need to re-specify the excluded words when you test a new sample.
