From c652532490c1adc6891711db0736f643b241fab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jordan Suchow Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:56:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Improve website copy --- site/_posts/2014-06-10-approach.md | 4 ---- site/_posts/2014-06-10-tools.md | 7 +++++++ site/_posts/2015-09-25-contributing.md | 2 +- site/index.html | 11 +++++++---- 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/site/_posts/2014-06-10-approach.md b/site/_posts/2014-06-10-approach.md index 4206c2082..e7ddf755d 100644 --- a/site/_posts/2014-06-10-approach.md +++ b/site/_posts/2014-06-10-approach.md @@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ summary: An API for proselint. categories: proselint api --- -Writing is notoriously hard, even for the best writers. Yet there is a tremendous amount of knowledge about the discipline strewn across usage guides, dictionaries, technical manuals, essays, pamphlets, websites, and the hearts and minds of great authors and editors. But poring over Strunk & White hardly makes one a better writers — it turns you into neither Strunk nor White. And nobody has the willpower (nor the time, memory, or desire) to do what is necessary to apply all the advice from Garner’s Modern American Usage, a 975-page usage guide, to everything that they write. The format of the knowledge is essentially inert, and the method of adoption demanded by that format — reading the advice and, in doing so, becoming a better writer — rests on assumptions about learning and memory that are untenable. - -By considering the learner’s cognitive constraints, we devised a solution: proselint, a linter for prose. (A linter is a computer program that, like spellcheck, scans through a document and analyzes it.) -

Is proselint yet another awful grammar checker?

No. Here’s why not:

    diff --git a/site/_posts/2014-06-10-tools.md b/site/_posts/2014-06-10-tools.md index dcf6a4499..09aa22890 100644 --- a/site/_posts/2014-06-10-tools.md +++ b/site/_posts/2014-06-10-tools.md @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ categories: proselint tools ## Email autoresponder Send an email to editor@proselint.com, or CC the address on an email to someone else. We'll respond with a list of comments based on the linter's output. +## Live web editor +You can play with proselint using our live web editor. + +## The web API. +There is a web API, but we haven't released it yet. + +
    For questions and feature requests, write to us at hello@proselint.com. diff --git a/site/_posts/2015-09-25-contributing.md b/site/_posts/2015-09-25-contributing.md index 62600f4a5..68c7220c0 100644 --- a/site/_posts/2015-09-25-contributing.md +++ b/site/_posts/2015-09-25-contributing.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ summary: How to contribute to Proselint. categories: proselint contributors --- -Interested in contributing to proselint? Great — there are plenty of ways you can help. In the following sections, we describe how you can help us build proselint into the greatest writing tool in the world. +Interested in contributing to proselint? Great — there are plenty of ways you can help. In the following sections, we describe how you can help us build proselint into the greatest writing tool in the world. Work on proselint happens over on Github ## Coding Have coding skills? You can: diff --git a/site/index.html b/site/index.html index fbd9dec53..921c65b71 100755 --- a/site/index.html +++ b/site/index.html @@ -4,13 +4,17 @@

    A linter for prose.

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    proselint places the world’s greatest writers and editors by your side, where they whisper suggestions on how to improve your prose. You’ll be guided by Bryan Garner, David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, Steve Pinker, Mary Norris, Mark Twain, Elmore Leonard, George Orwell, Matthew Butterick, William Strunk, E.B. White, Philip Corbett, Ernest Gowers, and the editorial staff of the world’s finest literary magazines and newspapers. Others are on their way and will arrive soon. Our goal is to aggregate knowledge about best practices in writing and to make that knowledge immediately accessible to all authors in the form of a linter for prose. We call it proselint.

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    Writing is notoriously hard, even for the best writers. Yet there is a tremendous amount of knowledge about the discipline strewn across usage guides, dictionaries, technical manuals, essays, pamphlets, websites, and the hearts and minds of great authors and editors. But poring over Strunk & White hardly makes one a better writer — it turns you into neither Strunk nor White. And nobody has the capacity to apply all the advice from Garner’s Modern American Usage, a 975-page usage guide, to everything they write. In fact, the whole notion that one becomes a better writer by reading advice on writing rests on untenable assumptions about learning and memory. The traditional formats of knowledge about writing are thus essentially inert, waiting to be extracted and transformed.

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    proselint is a command-line utility and web API that is meant to be integrated into other tools. It’s free for personal use. Commercial licenses are available.

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    We devised a simple solution: proselint, a linter for prose. (A linter is a computer program that, like a spell checker, scans through a document and analyzes it.)

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    proselint places the world’s greatest writers and editors by your side, where they whisper suggestions on how to improve your prose. You’ll be guided by advice inspired by Bryan Garner, David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, Steve Pinker, Mary Norris, Mark Twain, Elmore Leonard, George Orwell, Matthew Butterick, William Strunk, E.B. White, Philip Corbett, Ernest Gowers, and the editorial staff of the world’s finest literary magazines and newspapers, among others. Our goal is to aggregate knowledge about best practices in writing and to make that knowledge immediately accessible to all authors in the form of a linter for prose.

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    Currently, proselint is a command-line utility that is meant to be integrated into other tools. There’s a plugin for Sublime Text and a live demo. It’s open-source software available under the permissive BSD license. Work on proselint happens over on Github. We welcome contributors.

    With time, proselint will become fast, precise, exhaustive, and authoritative. Eventually, it will be unthinkable to write without it by your side.

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    Sign up for access to the private beta below, or write to us at hello@proselint.com. We’d love to chat.

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    Sign up for our mailing list below, or write to us at hello@proselint.com. We’d love to chat.

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    A linter for prose.