by Helen Sword | Aug 14, 2017 | About the test, FAQs, Functionality, The Writer's Diet
So you’ve written a philosophy essay, you’ve referenced Derrida a fair bit, you quote from other scholars, and your topic is post-structuralist feminism. The WritersDiet Test is probably not going to be kind to you. Your work is loaded with zombie nouns...
by Helen Sword | Aug 14, 2017 | FAQs, Stylish writing
People sometimes write to tell me what’s wrong with the WritersDiet Test. Good writing cannot possibly be reduced to a numerical formula, they protest. Nor can an electronic tool be trusted to make judgments about a matter as complex and subjective as style. I...
by Helen Sword | Aug 14, 2017 | FAQs
From time to time I get emails like this one from an outraged visitor to the Writer’s Diet website: As a test of the ‘Academic validity’ of this tool, I decided to test the following: 800 words of Nietzsche’s first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil, came back as:...
by Helen Sword | Aug 11, 2017 | About the test
It’s pretty simple, actually – so simple, in fact, that you can perform the test manually if you prefer to go low-tech. Just gather together five colored highlighters (preferably orange, blue, green, yellow, and pink) and use the scoring charts at the back of the...
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