Wordy phrases

Wordy sentences are often confusing to read. Consider using direct words without changing the meaning of your sentence. Zia detects such phrases in your document and suggests shorter alternatives. For example, "a number of" is a wordy phrase, which can be replaced with "many". Avoid using hedges, empty phrases, tautological phrases, and redundant acronyms in your writing.

Passive sentences

Writing in Active Voice is generally better, because it's more direct and cuts down on the number of words used. Zia automatically lists the passive sentences used in your document. You can consider changing these sentences to improve the quality of your content.

Adverbs

Using fewer adverbs is advisable to avoid redundancy and to make your writing direct. For example, "John said loudly" can be written as "John shouted", which is very direct and reduces the word count.

Zia scans your document and rates the total number of adverbs used. You can consider replacing redundant adverbs to improve the quality of your content.

Cliches

Clichés are phrases used so often that they are no longer effective or interesting. Open the Zia panel in your Writer document to check the number of clichés used and update your content accordingly.

Unclear or Archaic words

Archaic words are usually used in old-fashioned novels or in history that are no longer used in writing since they have lost a particular meaning in current usage. Zia automatically detects these outdated words and gives suggestions to change accordingly.

Inclusive language

Inclusive writing includes gender-biased language towards a particular sex or a social gender that one writes unintentionally. 

Few examples are shown below: 

Zia highlights these gender-specific words in your document with their equivalent gender-neutral words. This helps writers to avoid misrepresenting an individual's gender, age, or race when writing.

Non-standard words or complex words

Zia hightlights if a word is too complex to read and gives you suggestions to change it to a more understandable word.

Rephrasable sentences

Zia identifies split infinitives, conjunctions used in the beginning of a sentence or unclear pronoun used in your writing and suggests to rephrase such sentences. Though these sentences are not grammatically incorrect, you can consider rephrasing them to improve the writing quality.

Using conjunctions in the beginning of a sentence

When a sentence starts with a conjunction (and, but, because, while, until, although, or if), Zia suggests to rephrase the sentence.

Split infinitive

A split infinitive is an adverb or adverbial phrase, that is placed between the "to" and the plain form of a "verb". There’s nothing grammatically wrong with split infinitives. However, rephrasing it makes your writing clear and formal.

Unclear pronoun

Unclear pronoun will make your sentences confusing and vague.

For example, consider the following sentence.

“Both John and Peter loved his car”.

From the above sentence, we cannot tell whose car they both loved. Zia identifies such phrases in your document and suggests to rephrase them.

Check the writing quality

You can check and update the writing quality parameters from the Zia panel.

1. Open the Zia panel by clicking on the button on the top right corner of your screen.
2. Under Writing Quality section, there are suggestions for wordy phrases, rephrasable sentences, passive voice, and cliches used in your document. You can delete or rewrite them using the suggestions provided.