Testimonials from Writer's Workbench Customers

"Easier Grading and Instant Feedback: Being an English teacher means grading a ton of papers. WWB helps off load something very objective. There are so few programs or apps out there that can give the students instant feedback. WWB is the best one I've seen.
Personally, I have the students run Vague and Abstract to get a score of 5% or lower. Then, look at Style and Stats. Sentence variety of 50% (or lower) for simple and compound sentences with 50% (or higher) for the complex and compound-complex sentences is a great benchmark. Forms of TO BE should be 20% or lower. Finally, average word length should be 4.0 letter or higher on average. That's a ton of stuff directly in the student's control--and teachers have to do NOTHING to read or score it. The students run the program.
It is a 24/7 program. Once a school purchases it, students can use it during class, study hall, or at home. With WWB On-line, kids can run it through their iPad, Chromebook--even their phone!
It is a great deal. I have not found a better program for the price. It is so powerful and runs more analyses than a teacher can go through in a year. Teachers using it will soon find their favorite analyses. Also, the cost for using Writer's Workbench is much less than any other writing enhancement software."

"Writer's Workbench is an outstanding tool for our students to use throughout the writing process. Our students specifically use the 2.1 Style Statistics analysis quite a bit. It provides information on use of "being verbs" as well as a readability level.
Students become knowledgeable about what good writing entails, but learn how to create good writing, by using their own writing. Greg has been extremely helpful throughout the many years we have been with WWB. Any problems have always been addressed within hours.
Finally, the online version is seamless. Students can use WWB from any device - PC's or Macs, even iPads. It's very user-friendly and takes only a minute or two to create an account and start using the tool.
It's the only writing program we've ever used. Whether it's for test-prep or creating good writers, Writer's Workbench is an indispensable tool for our school and for our students."

"I have been a high school English teacher for 17 years, and WWB is still the best tool--silver bullet is more like it--for attacking all of those "issues" that occur in student writing. One session with WWB, and the students are hooked." .... "WWB is the best thing to happen to Writing Education since the word processor replaced the typewriter."

"Writer's Workbench differs from the other editing software we've reviewed in that Writer's Workbench is more a teaching aid and a learning aid than a program you use for a "quick fix." You do not use Writer's Workbench to make onscreen corrections to your Word document; rather, you use Writer's Workbench to learn how to write well. You can then apply the software's lessons to your writing for life."

"Writers Workbench has been an extremely helpful tool in the creation of thesis papers for my high school junior English class. The ability to scan the papers for passive voice, grammar, and repetition has been a great help in raising my grades. Thank you!"

"WWB offers my students objective feedback about their writing that helps them improve their writing. At a time when assessment has moved to the forefront in education, it provides a tool to measure writing skills."

"I love Writer's Workbench. I not only use it for myself, I am writing a novel, but I have my children use it. We homeschool, and have done so for over 20 years. This program is TERRIFIC for writing. My children type up the writing assignments, Writer's Workbench shows them how to improve their writing. Not only that, it also TEACHES them different writing principals!! WE LOVE THIS PROGRAM! THANKS!"

"We have been using Writer's Workbench for many years now and wouldn't teach an English writing class without it. We love the fact that we can tailor needs to individual students and to their level of writing.
Some students are still learning about homonyms while the more advanced students are using the style with support report to become independent editors of their work.
We require a 'to be' check on every paper at every level. We are looking for active verbs in writing. For example, the honors sophomores must write with less than 25% to be verbs; this percentage drops to 15% by the end of second semester.
Some students pride themselves in being able to write a rough draft with NO to be verbs!
The program is easy to run, understood by students, and integrates into the tracked changes required by the students to show the teachers how they used the WWB printouts to improve their writing.
Thanks for a terrific product!"

"Both of my daughters have used WWB at Glenbard North High School to review and improve their English and Humanities papers. My older daughter continues to depend on WWB at the University of Illinois (Champaign) and we recently upgraded to the latest release of the software."

"Writers Workbench challenges my students to actively revise their papers versus completing a spell check. The result of using the program as a part of our English curriculum? Across the board, better writing. I am impressed when I hear students say that they automatically revise to be verbs as they write their rough drafts."

"The Johnson County Community College Writing Center has been using the Writer's Workbench program almost since its inception. What I have enjoyed about the company is its personal touch.
I have always felt that if I had a problem (rarely, I might add), I had someone (Greg Oij) to talk to and he has always replied immediately. Our students enjoy the software because of its depth and breadth... it is easy to use and it actually helps them to revise and edit their rough drafts while teaching them rules that they need to know."

"I would recommend Writer's Workbench to all students and teachers. Students, both in high school and college, can use this software to help them improve their writing skills. As a teacher and doctoral student at Walden University, I believe that my writing and editing skills have improved with the use of this software. It is very user-friendly and definitely worth the price."

"The best, quick trick I love about WWB is using the 2.1 analysis program that flags to be verbs. As soon as my students start to revise based on this program, they are delighted with the style improvement along with better word choices."

"I have recommended Writer's Workbench to my virtual graduate learners from all over the country.
IF they choose to use the software, I found a marked difference in the quality of their work.
Reasonably priced, and user-friendly, I find Writer's Workbench to be worthwhile for me and my learners."

"I am very pleased with the Writers Workbench software. By far, it is the best grammar checking software on the market."

"I began using WWB less than a year ago to help me in the writing of a novel that I have been struggling with for several years. I began using WWB on Chapter 57 and I am currently on Chapter 70. (There will be about eight or ten more chapters.) I can hardly believe the improvement in my writing."

"WRITER'S WORKBENCH is a cool program that works with Microsoft Word and runs analyses of your work by linguistic category, so you can see which areas of your craft you need to work on. Using too many to be verbs, dangling modifiers or incorrect punctuation? This program will show you just where you've gone wrong."

"As a short story writer and novelist, I have been using Writer's Workbench to improve the quality of my writing for the last five years. While some analysis sections of Writer's Workbench aren't relevant to my needs as an experienced writer, ten analysis sections have been of tremendous help to me.
Many writers will tell you that it's all but impossible to edit their own writing. I'm one. What Writer's Workbench does for me is force me to slow down and review all the mistakes that I lost sight of while working on the plot and characters of my stories. Writer's Workbench helps me find errors, clarifies my writing and forces me to review the grammar aspects of my writing and, I hope, improves the overall quality of my stories.
The other aspect that I have found helpful is that the technical support is not only knowledgeable and fast but also friendly. Of course, the program is so stable, I've only had to use tech support a few times but it's still great to know the help is there when I might need it.
I find Writer's Workbench a critical tool in my arsenal of writing aids."