Frequently asked questions

• How does the Writer punctuation checker work?

  Do you ever confuse the difference between em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens?

  Unsure whether to use a semicolon or a comma? If you answered yes to either question, Writer’s punctuation checker is the tool for you.

  Our punctuation tool makes sure that you’re using correct punctuation, such as periods, commas, colons, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes. Writer’s proprietary AI ensures that your writing uses consistent punctuation and sentence structure.

• Why use Writer’s punctuation checker?

  Clear, well-written content is more important than ever before. In today’s competitive world, quality writing is often the difference between getting the top grade, the best performance review, or the most-read website content.

  Writer’s punctuation checker helps you get ahead in work, school, and life by ensuring that you’re communicating effectively. Using incorrect punctuation could cause your reader to become confused or worse yet, frown upon your writing. With the Writer punctuation checker, you can be confident that your writing uses correct punctuation in addition to correct spelling and grammar.

• How do I check for punctuation in Google Docs?

  With so many students, schools, and companies using Google Docs to create reports and documents, we developed Writer’s technology with Google Docs top of mind. Sign up for a free trial of Writer and install the Google Docs add-on, making it super easy to check for grammar and punctuation errors right in the Google Doc.

• Who uses Writer’s punctuation checker?

  Everyone and their sister can use the Writer punctuation checker. Writer is the preferred tool among professionals, and leading brands like Twitter and Intuit. Writer’s punctuation checker is also used by students, universities, professors, and professional writers for proofreading their content.

• Why is Writer the preferred Grammarly alternative for professional users?

  Professional users need an AI writing assistant that provides consistently excellent corrections and suggestions everywhere they write online. Writer achieves that for professional writers by providing the following features:

  • Grammar AI that understands some rules are meant to be broken: You have a style and we get that. Not all grammar rules are meant to be followed. Writer’s false-flag rate is lower than any other tool, because the underlying machine learning models are trained on data from people writing at work — not students or people just starting to learn English.
  • Brand voice guidelines: Customize Writer’s voice suggestions to suit you. Are you formal, but approachable? Or friendly and casual? Make sure everything you write is aligned with your brand voice preferences.
  • Customizable content styleguide: Your editorial guidelines should be your own. From date formats to punctuation use to capitalization preferences, select your own, and then share them with a team. Writer is the most customizable writing assistant available, and the choice of professional writers.