1. Word Up! Taking advantages of a couple of Microsoft Word features to help you in increasing the grade level of your writing. 10/29/20151 (c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions

2. 10/29/20152 (c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions So you have a n assignment and your first draft of your writing. Most students are familiar with using the “spell check” feature, but it does so much more!

3. 10/29/20153 (c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions Step 1: (quick route) run a spell check on your writing. See if this window pops up after all words are spelled correctly.

4. 10/29/20154 (c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions No? Okay, so… In Office 2000+, you can go to the “Tools” taskbar and go under Options to set up “Readability Statistics.” In Office 2007, you go to “Review” and there you will see The ABC – check (spell check icon). The Readability Statistics will automatically show up after you have done a spell check.

5. 10/29/20155 (c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions If you have to enable it yourself… Go under “options.” There you will see eleven tabs across the top. Open “Spelling & Gram” Check off “Show Readability statistics” Click the OK button. Now, after you do a spell check, the stats box will appear.

6. 10/29/2015(c) 2011 K. Pariseau, Legacy Productions 6 Step 2: Open the Word file “Increasing Grade Level of Writing” for examples of how to further use this tool to improve your essays.