A simple problem has long prevented students from revising their papers to correct mistakes with relative clauses: they can’t identify those clauses.

Writing Reviser eliminates that problem.

We highlight all the relative pronouns in an essay and present arrows pointing toward the word to which it relates. Students simply follow that arrow to determine if what they have written is what they meant.

Accompanying text clarifies specifics and also prompts students to consider whether their relative clauses have made their sentences wordy and unemphatic. Why write “the building that is old” when you can simply say “the old building”?

Why write “During this camping trip, we need to ration our food, which consists of sandwiches and fruit,” when you could simply say, “During this camping trip, we need to ration our sandwiches and fruit”?

Materials on misused relative pronouns are just a few of the many ways Writing Reviser helps students begin to ask themselves the kinds of questions experienced writers ask automatically.

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For more information on our relative pronoun resources, see the following:

• Clear Modifiers
• Can That Be Compressed?
• Clean Up Those Relative Clauses That Clog Your Sentences