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Editor is a remedy for the shortcomings of spelling and grammar checkers and a critical accessory for most writers, writing teachers, and editors. Editor copyedits and proofreads writers’ texts at the level of words and phrases. The software can identify tens of thousands of common mistakes and stylistic weaknesses of the kinds that elude word processors’ spelling and grammar checkers. Editor not only promotes better spelling than spell checkers alone achieve but also helps writers at every level remove stylistic clutter from their work.

“Clutter is the disease of American writing,” says a modern critic. Contemporary English prose badly needs good editing. It is littered with wordy phrases, needless repetitions, clichés, vague terms, pretentious language, mechanical errors, redundancy, illogical expressions, jargon, homonym confusions, misspelled terms, incorrectly formed plurals and possessives, and other common writing problems. Students and other inexperienced writers are especially prone to make poor stylistic choices, but even professional writers and their editors can stumble, as literate readers of newspapers, magazines, and today’s fiction well know.

The proofreading tools featured in word processors ignore most stylistic clutter and often miss outright blunders in spelling, usage, and mechanics. Other grammar–checking and spell–checking software may offer stylistic services to writers but our tests indicate that none has Editor’s coverage and precision, most are more expensive, and some are appallingly illiterate.

For over twenty–three years, writers have been using Editor to polish their prose. Teachers in high schools, colleges, and universities have featured the software in classrooms, writing labs, and homework assignments, both as an educational tool and as a way to reduce the burden of marking up student papers.