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Difficulty of reading scholarly papers is significantly reduced by reader-friendly writing principles. Writing reader-friendly text, however, is challenging due to difficulty in recognizing problems in one’s own writing. To help scholars identify and correct potential writing problems, we introduce SWAN (Scientific Writing AssistaNt) tool. SWAN is a rule-based system that gives feedback based on various quality metrics based on years of experience from scientific writing classes including 960 scientists of various backgrounds: life sciences, engineering sciences and economics. . | SWAN - Scientific Writing AssistaNt A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts http swan Tomi Kinnunen Henri Leisma Monika Machunik Tuomo Kakkonen Jean-Luc Lebrun Abstract Difficulty of reading scholarly papers is significantly reduced by reader-friendly writing principles. Writing reader-friendly text however is challenging due to difficulty in recognizing problems in one s own writing. To help scholars identify and correct potential writing problems we introduce SWAN Scientific Writing AssistaNt tool. SWAN is a rule-based system that gives feedback based on various quality metrics based on years of experience from scientific writing classes including 960 scientists of various backgrounds life sciences engineering sciences and economics. According to our first experiences users have perceived SWAN as helpful in identifying problematic sections in text and increasing overall clarity of manuscripts. 1 Introduction A search on tools to evaluate the quality of writing often gets you to sites assessing only one of the qualities of writing its readability. Measuring ease of reading is indeed useful to determine if your writing meets the reading level of your targeted reader but with scientific writing the statistical formulae and readability indices such as Flesch-Kincaid lose their usefulness. In a way readability is subjective and dependent on how familiar the reader is with the specific vocabulary and the written style. Scientific papers are targeting an audience at ease with T. Kinnunen H. Leisma M. Machunik and T. Kakkonen are with the School of Computing University of Eastern Finland UEF Joensuu Finland e-mail tkinnu@. Jean-Luc Lebrun is an independent trainer of scientific writing and can be contacted at jllebrun@. a more specialized vocabulary an audience expecting sentence-lengthening precision in writing. The readability index would require recalibration for such a specific audience. But the need for .