What SciWriter can do?

It checks a scientific writing piece for less commonly used word-patterns. Low frequency of a word-pattern can indicate writing errors.

It can spot following errors -

• Spelling mistakes
• Subject verb agreement (simple)
• Wrong use of verbs
• Jargons
• Article use errrors
• Preposition errors
• Unclear phrases

It uses a simple approach based on word-triple frequency. For example - if word triple "was denied the" occured in the database less than 5 or the frequency cutoff times, word "was" will be spotted using the red font color. The database was created using NIH author manuscripts from the PMC database. A total 7000 manuscripts in high-impact journals (IF > 20) were indexed in a NoSQL database. Since those manuscripts were written by NIH-investigators, their scientific writing style and language can be considered as a reference writing style.

Once the errors have been spotted, clicking on a word in the input will suggest you frequently used next word in the database.

Example paragraph ::--> Cell integrity depends on the correct organization of its limiting membrane, whose molecular organization we understand poorly. The pioneering fluid mosaic model suggested that membrane proteins and lipids diffuse freely and are thus homogenously distributed (Singer and Nicolson, 1972), but recent advances show that membranes contain various lipid species that segregate laterally into discrete microdomains (Kraft, 2013, Lorent and Levental, 2015).

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