Homer is a Python package that can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for the reader.
It provides information on an overall text as well as on individual paragraphs. It gives insights into readability, length of paragraphs, length of sentences, average sentences per paragraph, average words in a sentence, etc. It is based on work by Pinker and another research study [1, 2].
This software package grew out of a personal need. Since I am not a native English speaker but am interested in writing. I write OpEds and a blog. So I designed and have been using Homer to improve my writing. I hope others will find it useful. I am aware of other tools (such as ProseLint) but I built this thinking this would help me improve my Python. :) Also, over time I plan on improving this.
Having read both, I think _The Sense of Style_ is a very different kind of book from _The Elements of Style_. The latter is more of a collection of rules and recommendations. It is very concise, to the point, and without much argument. It simply describes what constitutes readable writing.
_The Sense of Style_ has a lot more why and how. The author showed the reasons that he recommend certain ways of writing, sometimes referencing studies in linguistics and cognitive science. The rules it contains are not as rigid as _The Elements of Style_; many of the style guides are really just something to keep in mind. Reading _The Sense of Style_ was like peeking into the thought process of the author.
Really cool. It would be super useful to have this in other languages as well, french in my case. This would be a useful addition to a grammar checker I am currently developing.
Very cool. Wonder if this could be tailored to analyze financial disclosures (10-Ks and 10-Qs) to rank management teams on their abilities to describe their company succinctly and appropriately convey messages on financial results to shareholders and the investment community.
It's a pet idea of mine that I just haven't had time to play with. Would need to adjust for size of the company and industry, at a minimum...
Proselint looks really excellent. I'm a fan of Garner's usage dictionary.
Unfortunately, out of a sample of my longer comments here, all it really ever picks up are overuse of "very" and things like using "..." instead of the actual ellipsis.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 34.5 ms ] threadIt provides information on an overall text as well as on individual paragraphs. It gives insights into readability, length of paragraphs, length of sentences, average sentences per paragraph, average words in a sentence, etc. It is based on work by Pinker and another research study [1, 2].
This software package grew out of a personal need. Since I am not a native English speaker but am interested in writing. I write OpEds and a blog. So I designed and have been using Homer to improve my writing. I hope others will find it useful. I am aware of other tools (such as ProseLint) but I built this thinking this would help me improve my Python. :) Also, over time I plan on improving this.
References:
1- Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style:
2- https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf
_The Sense of Style_ has a lot more why and how. The author showed the reasons that he recommend certain ways of writing, sometimes referencing studies in linguistics and cognitive science. The rules it contains are not as rigid as _The Elements of Style_; many of the style guides are really just something to keep in mind. Reading _The Sense of Style_ was like peeking into the thought process of the author.
It's a pet idea of mine that I just haven't had time to play with. Would need to adjust for size of the company and industry, at a minimum...
Unfortunately, out of a sample of my longer comments here, all it really ever picks up are overuse of "very" and things like using "..." instead of the actual ellipsis.
https://github.com/retextjs/awesome-retext https://github.com/textlint/textlint