Which Feature Do You Want?
The Review Fuse team is debating which feature to develop next. We would like your input about which of these features would help you benefit the most as a writer or from the peer critique process. Would you please rank the following 4 features in order of usefulness? Please feel free to add other features to your comments.
- Writing Lessons
- We would provide a weekly writing lesson that focuses on specific writing skills. This would include topics like how to develop a captivating beginning for a story or how to create memorable characters. These writing lessons could be submitted for critique by your peers after completing the lesson.
- Verbal Review
- This would allow a reviewer to read your piece out loud and interject their thoughts and comments vocally. This would only be available for users with microphones. We would let the author choose if they will accept verbal reviews. The verbal reviews would be available for download as MP3s.
- Create your own review frameworks
- When you submit a piece for review you can develop your own review framework for the piece, allowing you to ask reviewers to address specific areas in your work.
- Writing analysis
- Our servers would inspect your writing and programmatically identify issues like:
- Is my writing too complicated?
- Am I being repetitive?
- Am I over-reliant on particular words and phrases?
- How advanced and readable is my writing?
- Our servers would inspect your writing and programmatically identify issues like:
Thanks for your help. If you have not had a chance to do so please join our free writing community.
Jacob
Stumble it!
December 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I would be interested in the writing lessons, create your own review frameworks and writing analysis. — Kathy
December 21st, 2008 at 11:47 pm
My ranking:
1. Writing analysis
2. Writing Lessons
3. Create/choose your own review frameworks
4. Talking Review
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
Definitely writing lessons! It would be extremely helpful for those who just need some ‘touch up’ skills or such. And it can really help improve our work!
But i also really don’t mind the writing analysis too
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
1. writing analysis
2. framework
3. lessons
4. talking
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
1. Writing Analysis!
2. Writing lessons
3. Framework
4. Talking
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I like them all, but not the verbal so much.
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
1. Writing lessons
2. Writing analyisis
3. Frame work
4. Verbal
December 27th, 2008 at 4:09 am
1. writing analysis
2. framework
3. lessons
4. talking
December 28th, 2008 at 4:26 am
I think custom review framework would be most useful. There are often key areas in a story that I’m most interested in getting feedback for, and it would be helpful to be able to guide the reviewer to those areas.
Any of the other features would be nice additions too, but the custom review framework would make me the most giddy
December 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Also, if you implement Verbal Reviews it could be useful to also implement verbal submissions. It could be useful for poetry especially. (or even song lyrics?!)