Use More Academic Words - Vocabprofile
Effective academic writing requires using academic words. The Vocabprofile tool can identify these words in your writing.
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The Vocabprofile tool Links to an external site. (Web VP Classic) is very easy to use:
- Copy and paste your text (up to 35,000 words!)
- Click the yellow SUBMIT_Window button
- View the breakdown in a table or in your text: blue words are in the first most frequent 1000 in English, green are in the second most frequent 1000, yellow are on the Academic Word List, and red are all other words.
A typical academic text has approximately 15% of words on the Academic Word List. Links to an external site.
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