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If your friend is using a Window's version of Word Perfect, or any other
Window's word processor, I can highly recommend _The Writer's Toolkit_.
It includes:
The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary
The Dictionary of Common Knowledge
Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus
The Written Word III - Principles of Grammar and Style
The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
The Houghton Miffin Abbreviation Program
The Houghton Miffin CorrecText Grammar and Style Checker
Provided within these is:
Gunning's Fog Index
Flesch Reading Ease Score
Flesch-Kincaid Score
Flesch Reading Ease Grade Level
I like it and it only set me back $50.00
-= John F =-
fulmerjo -at- pulua -dot- hcc -dot- hawaii -dot- edu |"I ain't nothing but a poor ol' country
fulmerj -at- cc -dot- ims -dot- disa -dot- mil | boy, trying to make a livin'."
