TOP 14 SITES THAT CAN MAKE YOU A CONTENT NINJA

Once upon a time, people spend days, sometimes weeks or months, to meet and greet people from other cities or countries. Nowadays, with just a click of a button, we can reach people from all over the world, convey messages, share experiences, thoughts, and ideas. With the constantly rising popularity of online media, blogging and writing is becoming increasingly one of the most popular ways to get your message across. We’re all social animals, we mingle, we giggle, we laugh and talk all the time. Surely, we can make friends with strangers by starting with a simple hi! We all speak different languages, but the most common language we use online (and internationally) is English, no question about it. While natural English speakers can converse naturally without even blinking, the same case is not true for all of us. And what better way to start a conversation, an article, a book, or a blog, but by being clearly understood, if not a content ninja! 

Oh, I love that, “content ninja!” Okay, so let’s start! If you are planning to write something, like a blog, an eBook or you simply want to amaze your social media audience, check first these websites and blogs:

1. Writing forward (blog)
2. ProWriting Aid (blog)
3. Grammarly (blog)
4. Lousy writer
5. Daily grammar
6. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
7. FluentU
8. English grammar 101
9. Grammar Girl quick and dirty tips
10. Readable.com
11. Grammarbook.com
12. Aztekera.com
13. Writer's Digest University
14. The Farlex Grammar Book

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1. WRITING FORWARD - Writing forward is a blog that aims to help aspiring bloggers and writers by sharing helpful and creative tips on writing. It provides grammar tips and good writing habits and practices. Sounds like a good idea to start writing. The blogger also conducts coaching for fiction and nonfiction creative writing.

2.  PRO WRITING AID BLOG  - You may already be familiar  (or not) with Pro Writing Aid app (for mobile devices) and website, it is a grammar checker and style editor. It comes with a free and paid option of use. But do you know that they are also having a blog? Yes, they are having a blog that further assists subscribers with helpful writing tips.

3. GRAMMARLY  BLOG - Grammarly is another grammar checker application, and their blog is not falling behind either. They provide writing tips, grammar guidelines, and updates about the latest trends.

4. LOUSY WRITER - Lousy writer provides free online resources, to help you write better. They don't believe in big techie words, instead, they use simple words and teach you where to place them correctly. Clever, huh! It makes sense, readers are not all rocket scientists, they will not read your article to get vocabulary lessons so stop using big words to appear smart.

5. DAILY GRAMMAR - Daily grammar is a learning platform, they are providing an eBook, workbook and also running their blog.  They help students from public schools and homeschooled students as well to learn with their 440 lessons and 88 quizzes. 

6. THE PURDUE ONLINE WRITING LAB (OWL) - The Purdue OWL is an educational platform that teaches everything about writing, from general writing, writing style up to plagiarism prevention. 

7. FLUENTU - FluentU is a language learning platform, It tackles any language from the very basic to a conversational or professional level even.

8. ENGLISH GRAMMAR 101 - English Grammar 101 teaches you the basic rules in grammar. There are times, you may be lax about your grammar because you feel that you have learned enough in elementary or high school, but without practice, you may forget all about it and get confused about which word goes where.  This is a very good platform to refresh. 

9. GRAMMAR GIRL QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS -  This website is very helpful, which is why it has been named by Writer's Digest 101 as the best website for writers multiple times.

10. READABLE.COM - Readable is another grammar and spelling checker website. Their concentration is text analysis. It supports 6 different English versions, US, UK, Australian, Canadian, Irish, and New Zealand.

11. GRAMMARBOOK.COM - GrammarBook is a matter of fact, a book. But this website provides free online quizzes, free lectures on grammar and punctuations, and free newsletters.  Who doesn't love free?

12. AZTEKERA.COM - Aztekera is a language voice analyzer.  It analyzes whether you are using a passive or active voice in writing. As many experts advise, using active voice makes our text more readable, so there you go!  Make sure you check this site.

13. WRITER'S DIGEST UNIVERSITY - Writer's Digest University conducts workshops for aspiring writers, regardless of the field you want to pursue.  They have experts that provide well-crafted instructions and advice based on their experience to keep you motivated and focused.

14. THE FARLEX GRAMMAR BOOK - The Farlex Grammar book is a series of grammar books, English Grammar (Volume 1), Punctuation (Volume2), and Spelling and Pronunciation (Volume 3).  The website teaches that as well, if you have the patience to go through their articles, they provide lessons and you can connect with other learners on the comment section. 

Learning is a continuous process. As long as we are living, we don't stop absorbing bits and pieces of lessons from all over. Make this one count. The good thing about writing digitally is, we can always edit and correct the articles we wrote in the past. But the bad thing about it is, many people can already read them before we can correct them. Anyway, this is a good starting point to write and be a CONTENT NINJA! 

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