Checking for errors: best programs, recommendations

All those who work with text documents know perfectly well that qualitatively and correctly compiled text largely determines the pledge of its perception by the audience. No matter, you publish a post on the Internet, do an accompanying description of the presentation or something else. By literacy, you can immediately draw a conclusion about the person who wrote the text part. And if this important letter, say, to business partners, then literacy generally comes first. In this case, checking text, correcting errors, punctuation, spelling become what you are paying attention to first. How to make such a check if you are not sure of your knowledge of the language? For this, several methods can be proposed.

Checking errors in the text and correcting errors: options for actions

First, you need to determine what is to be checked in the written text. If you mean only errors, spelling and punctuation, you can use the same Word that is included in any office suite, or ask for help from a variety of online services.

In case of verification of uniqueness, for example when writing text for Internet sites or when working on a thesis, you will have to use already specialized programs. You understand that plagiarism is not welcome.

Checking text for punctuation (errors) using Word

But let's start with the standard methods. Verification of texts for errors can be made in the most ordinary text editor Word. However, despite the fact that words with errors the program emphasizes or corrects automatically, if the automatic correction function is activated, it does not have punctuation.

The point is that checking for commas (there are a lot of errors in the text of this kind) using Word looks somewhat undeveloped. The program often suggests placing punctuation marks, in particular the same commas, in those places where it is not stipulated by the rules of the Russian language. Did you notice the blue underlining? This is just the evidence that the automatic verification system believes that some sign is omitted (or the case does not match the content of the sentence).

Checking the texts for errors in spelling is also not always at the proper level. Here the problem is that many use the input of foreign words in Russian transcription (for example, Android and "Android"). The engine for checking for such situations is not calculated.

It's hard to blame the creators of the editor for incompetence, at least for the simple reason that today there is not a single automated verification system in the world that would work better than some specialist or a teacher of the Russian language. But in its domain, Word is the best program (this is recognized by everyone).

Finally, if you are not satisfied with the automatic text checking for errors, you can use the special tool call by pressing the F7 key, after which the document will be scanned with the suggestion of correcting words or alternatives for replacing them with others. On the other hand, words unknown to the program can be added to the dictionary, so that later it ignores them (although if in the future we use words in cases other than the source one, we will still get an error). But when writing text through the PCM, you can immediately call a thesaurus, where the synonym of a word or an appropriate substitute is selected.

Yandex Speller service

It goes without saying that checking for error texts can also be done using specialized online resources.

For example, in the service "Yandex Speller" directly on the site, you can simply paste or manually enter the text in a special field and click the start check button. It works all like Word. Similarly, you can skip unknown words, add them to dictionaries, or use replacement options.

Language Tools

Before us - another well-proven service. It also inserts the text into a special field and checks it.

Pay attention to the bottom part of the resource window. There are links to downloading add-ons to some popular browsers. Once the extensions are installed, you can validate them directly in them without accessing the system's website.

Check for uniqueness with utilities and services Advego and Etxt

Finally, in case when you want to check the text for uniqueness (plagiarism), you can use two popular utilities that work on practically the same principles, but differ only in the list of resources to which verification is performed during verification and verification methods.

Because of this, the result may be slightly different, but not so much as to affect the final result. This is Advego Plagiatus and "Etxt Anti-Plagiarism." True, the first program checks for longer, although not less efficiently.

By the way, in connection with the recent restriction of access to Russian sites and services in Ukraine, the verification when using these programs in this region can be prolonged indefinitely, and the applications sometimes even hang. In this case, in the settings, you just need to disable the check on the Yandex requests, and sometimes Rambler and QIP, which, when verified, require captcha input. But the result may not be what it really is. But it's better so than not at all. It goes without saying that for the correct functioning of these utilities, the system must have an active Internet connection.

In addition to using these utilities, you can refer to their self-titled online resources. There, too, you need to insert the text in the field and wait until the scan queue reaches it, after which the corresponding result will be issued with the emphasis of the phrases that are the source of plagiarism.

Recommendations for the use of programs and services

Finally it remains to give a few tips on qualitative verification. The first step is to use Word or a similar program. If the result does not suit you, you can refer to the free services mentioned above. Finally, to calculate the percentage of plagiarism (if it really is necessary), you just need to install the appropriate utilities (they occupy minimum space on the hard disk).

And of course, if you have the opportunity to use any other program not from among the presented ones, there is nothing terrible in this, because the order mentioned above can not be regarded as a dogma.