TEKchecker: Improving Technical
Writing
Automation for analyzing the clarity
and precision of your requirements specs
Checkout the StyleWriter & TEKchecker
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Get
TEKchecker
details by downloading the
TEKchecker User Guide (pdf)
and FAQs about StyleWriter & TEKchecker
(pdf).
small mistakes
 BIG misunderstandings
TEKchecker
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improves accuracy, precision,
and clarity
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identifies missing,
incorrect, incomplete, and ambiguous information
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finds mistakes earlier,
saving time and money later
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uses more than a thousand
patterns to scour technical writing, highlight potential problems, and
describe risks
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identifies problem
types by examining words in eleven grammatical
classes
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Problem Types
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Grammatical Classes
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Ambiguity
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Insufficiency
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Adjective
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Negation
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Bloat
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Necessity
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Adverb
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Noun
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Causation
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Redundancy
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Conjunction
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Pronoun
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Inaccuracy
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Vagueness
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Imperative
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Quantifier
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Incorrectness
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Measure
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Verb
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Authors and reviewers use
TEKchecker in engineering, medicine, science, technology, and law to
analyze:
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proposals
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contracts
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web text
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policies and procedures
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project plans
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instructions
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courseware
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standards and guidelines
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specifications
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user guides
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technical reports
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regulations
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STATUS:
TEKchecker
is no longer available.
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