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While here, run these files through a spell-checker and wrap some overly long lines and/or dangling prepositions (when appropriate).
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write-good is a naive linter for English prose. For example,
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it is able to check for the following issues in text:
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- passive voice
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- lexical illusions -- cases where a word is repeated
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- "so" at the beginning of the sentence
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- "there is" or "there are" at the beginning of the sentence
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- weasel words
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- adverbs that can weaken meaning: really, very, extremely, etc.
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- wordy phrases and unnecessary words
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- common cliches
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