Need advise regarding content writing
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Also check via online tools. One tool that I've been coming across a lot is Grammarly (I'm not an affiliate, and please use at your own judgment). But I had used it for checking a very advanced level of technical writing once, over a 280+ page technical document, and it had left an excellent impression in my mind.
Julzwriter
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You can hire an independent freelance editor, who can be checking
for you all content that you receive from your writers.
for you all content that you receive from your writers.
As @FredJones mentioned above, Grammarly is one tool that you can use.
Check out too; Hemingway App.
Have a read of this < IF you are going to download it, do your own VT scan >
https://www.academia.edu/34256187/READING_AND_WRITING_First_Quarter_Period_PROPERTIES_OF_A_WELL_WRITTEN_TEXT
Another thing I have just started doing this past month, is any writers we hire we send a link to an English grammar test for them to complete.
They email back the results and it shows their grade and also how long it took to take the test.
Best thing with this is the test changes every time it's taken, so people cannot really cheat.
There's no way to define native writing style. I've said many times just because a person is native English, doesn't make them a good writer.
Just because a person can speak English, doesn't mean they're able to communicate in written text.
A good writer can show great knowledge in an article, throw in nuances to enhance the flow.
Often none English writers resort to verbiage to pad out content just to reach a set work count.
You either need to hire an editor who is native English, so do this via a video call.
"Need advise regarding content writing" You need advice not advise
Stuffedegg
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I agree with @MisterF.
As for Grammarly, never take the results as "proof." I have seen many articles from non-native writers that will pass Grammarly with no errors. That is because it is very easy to click and change what Grammarly wants to change. Some of the suggestions that Grammarly provides make the sentence out of context and almost unreadable. Your best bet is to ask for samples, then hire a native English editor to check them and see which are best (as @MisterF said, too).
Also, there is no native style, only writing style in the native language. Everyone's writing style will differ; you need to find someone who can write the topics you want how your audience wants them.
Example of Grammarly error:
"Everyones" was missing an apostrophy, not an article.
As for Grammarly, never take the results as "proof." I have seen many articles from non-native writers that will pass Grammarly with no errors. That is because it is very easy to click and change what Grammarly wants to change. Some of the suggestions that Grammarly provides make the sentence out of context and almost unreadable. Your best bet is to ask for samples, then hire a native English editor to check them and see which are best (as @MisterF said, too).
Also, there is no native style, only writing style in the native language. Everyone's writing style will differ; you need to find someone who can write the topics you want how your audience wants them.
Example of Grammarly error:
"Everyones" was missing an apostrophy, not an article.
Stuffedegg
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Post a request in the HAF section. If MisterF can give you the link for a grammar test, that would help you, but be straight up in the HAF post that you want people to complete the test.
Stitches and Burns
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Grammarly is honestly sh*t. The amount of blatant errors that it introduces, as well as it misses, is mind-boggling.
Any English writer worth his salt will avoid Grammarly like a plague.
Stuffedegg
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I'm not certain that they all avoid it, but you do still have to be careful with which country you are targeting and suggestions it provides.
