The Five Minute Course
Learn Wordtune in five minutes.
Wordtune rewrites your sentences ten ways and lets you choose, with tone and length controls instead of red underlines. This lesson drills picking between rewrites deliberately, swinging a sentence from casual to formal, and using Spices to add examples and counterarguments.
Plate I The lesson, live
Open full screen ↗I. The idea
Ten rewrites, one meaning
Wordtune never tells you a sentence is wrong. It hands you variations and makes you choose, and choosing well is a different skill from accepting corrections.
Sentence rewrites
Highlight a sentence and get a list of alternatives that keep the meaning while changing the delivery. Your job is selection: reading the list against your reader, then picking or keeping your own.
Casual and Formal
The same sentence shifted along the register dial, plus Shorten and Expand for length. One click shows you what your text sounds like in a different room.
Spices
Continuations on demand: ask for an example, a counterargument, a statistic, or an explanation and Wordtune drafts one to weave in. Powerful for unsticking a paragraph, dangerous if you stop checking the additions.
II. The practice
What you will do in the lesson
You answer and try things. Nobody demonstrates at you for five minutes.
- Generate the full list. You take one clunky sentence and read every rewrite before choosing. Skimming to the first decent option wastes the tool; the best rewrite is often fourth.
- Choose for the reader. Same sentence, two audiences: you pick the rewrite for your manager and the one for your group chat, and articulate why they differ. Selection criteria are the skill.
- Swing the register. You run Casual and then Formal on one line and note what changes beyond vocabulary: sentence length, hedging, contractions. Register is a system, and the toggle makes it visible.
- Season a paragraph. You use a Spice to add a counterargument to an argumentative paragraph, then rule on whether it earns its place. Additions are auditions, not automatic hires.
- Keep your own sentence. You find a case where the original beats all the alternatives and decline every rewrite. Saying no to a fluent suggestion is the hardest habit here, and the most important.
III. Notes
Before you start
Does Wordtune write from scratch?
Its center of gravity is revision: rewriting and extending text you already have. Spices can generate new material like examples and counterarguments, but the tool assumes you bring a draft, which is exactly what the lesson gives you.
Can the rewrites change my meaning?
They are designed to preserve it, and they mostly do, but subtle drift happens, especially with hedges and qualifiers. The lesson includes catching one drifted rewrite so you know what it looks like before it happens in an email that matters.
Do I need to install anything for this lesson?
No. It runs in the embedded lesson on this page, without an account. Wordtune itself has a free tier with a daily allowance of rewrites when you want it in your own writing.
I use Grammarly already. Is Wordtune redundant?
They answer different questions. Grammarly flags problems and proposes fixes: a critic. Wordtune offers variations with no verdict attached: an option generator. If your writing is correct but stiff, Wordtune is the one aimed at your problem, and plenty of people run both.
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