Self-Evaluation
When time and money are short, self-evaluation of your writing skills is a positive first step. Explore the resources on this page and determine the best path forward in your better writing journey.
Evaluation is the making of a judgment about the amount, quality, or value of something. It is an assessment that can be wholly subjective and qualitative or entirely objective and quantitative. Usually the results of an assessment fall somewhere in between. Rarely does the result represent a totally rational judgment. Before you can fix something, you need to know what is wrong with it.
Expert Writing Skills
This section of the Better Writing website features explicit content for writing improvement in specific school and professional area. Each content area focuses on a specific topic and aims to provide the means to improve writing in each area for student, beginner, or veteran writers in the area. Each area can contain online web sites, content articles, online videos, and an occasional word-for-word article according to availability and quality. Within each area, each element "card" contains an abbreviated title, a short introduction to the item, a graphic element pulled from the originating website, a difficulty score (from beginner to advanced), and, where relevant the country of origin.
External Evaluation
When time and money are available, there are eternal resources available as a solid first step to better writing. These external resources are professional services that can provide a detailed snapshot of where your writing has strengths or needs work. The results are as close as one can get to a personal writing coach or tutor.
A.I. Evaluation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the bleeding edge of assessment technology. While often superficial and lacking specifics, there are numerous sources where you can submit writing samples and get feedback quickly. Many of these services are free or very low cost. If you need results fast, this is a reasonable first step.