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  • This section has some useful tools and suggestions for you to use to help you analyse your writing and to help you improve your typing.

    • The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors.

    • Use this website to analyse  at your writing and compare different texts. This site not only gives you a Word Cloud of your typed writing but it will also give you some statistics on:

      • common words AND common word pairs (i.e. collocations)
      • usage of punctuation marks
      • count of words, sentences and characters
      • word and sentence length
      • information on "readability" scales (what (U.S.) grade level your text is estimated to be
    • Word counter will automatically count the number of words and characters as you type. You can also copy and paste a document you have already written into the word counter box and it will display the word count and character numbers for that piece of writing. In addition, word counter automatically shows you the top 10 keywords and keyword density of the article you're writing.

      • will highlight all of the medium and lower-frequency words in your text and create lists of these words that you can use offline. 
      • click through the words in the text to see a detailed "word sketch" of any of the words -- showing definition, and collocations and more
    • - improve your typing skills with the lessons on this site.

    • This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed.

    • Typing Rocket is a fun keyboarding game for kids of all ages!