TEKchecker:
Improving Technical Writing
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TEKchecker
- improves accuracy, precision, and clarity
- identifies missing, incorrect, incomplete, and ambiguous information
- finds mistakes earlier, saving time and money later
- uses more than a thousand patterns to scour technical writing, highlight potential problems, and describe risks
- identifies problem types by examining words in eleven grammatical classes
| Problem Types |
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Grammatical Classes |
| Ambiguity |
Insufficiency |
|
Adjective |
Negation |
| Bloat |
Necessity |
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Adverb |
Noun |
| Causation |
Redundancy |
|
Conjunction |
Pronoun |
| Inaccuracy |
Vagueness |
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Imperative |
Quantifier |
| Incorrectness |
|
|
Measure |
Verb |
Authors and reviewers use TEKchecker in engineering, medicine, science, technology, and law to analyze:
| proposals |
contracts |
web text |
policies and procedures |
| project plans |
instructions |
courseware |
standards and guidelines |
| specifications |
user guides |
technical reports |
regulations |
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