WriteExpress Corporation
232 West 760 South
Salem, Utah, USA
84653
USA Phone Orders: 800-974-8339 or 801-423-7968
USA Fax Orders: 801-423-7986
Robert Stevens and Dr. Melvin Luthy founded WriteExpress Corporation in December of 1994.
Their partnership began in 1989 when they created a Rhyming Dictionary in cooperation with
WordPerfect Corporation. Luthy, a professor of linguistics and former chair of the Brigham
Young University linguistics department, built the phonetic database and Stevens programmed the
software. Later, Luthy and Stevens worked on their second project--to take the WordPerfect
Rhyming Dictionary and transform it into the Novell GroupWise Telephone Access Server (TAS)
Text-To-Speech Exceptions Dictionary.
The sheer volume of writing that these projects demanded brought to light a common problem
that would-be writers face daily--writers' block. How does a non-writer write something well? No
tool existed to help amateur writers sound like experts. Word processing, beyond providing a
thesaurus, had never addressed the problem of a blank screen. From that point, Luthy and Stevens
began brainstorming how they could boost writers' confidence.
By 1995, they had settled on an idea to create the ultimate writing tool. They hired more than
thirty editors to write the database. Some of the editors were part-time faculty in the BYU
English department. Others were free-lance editors or English MA graduates from Brigham
Young University.
Ron Millet, the father of full-text searching and indexing and principal author of Novell's patented
QuickFinder search engine, willingly integrated his brainchild.
Brian Wistisen, a former writing tools tester at WordPerfect, spearheaded the testing effort.
Scott Faulring, a software usability expert, provided weekly design and usability feedback. The
developers experimented with many ideas, testing, adjusting, and testing again until Faulring's
team felt that anyone could use the software.
Luthy and Stevens released the software in March 1997, after twenty-seven months of
development, and named their product WriteExpress Interactive Business Letters--designed to be
the ultimate writing tool to help amateurs write like professionals.
WriteExpress software continues to win industry awards, including the prestigious "ZD Net 5-Star Editors' Pick Award"-- and is a favorite tool among both English and non-English writers.
Version 2.1, renamed WriteExpress Easy Letters, was released March 1998. Version 2000, which
is easier to use and adds support for Word 2000 and Novell GroupWise, was released in
November 1999. Version 2001 was released November 2000. Version 2002 was released
February 2002. It adds support for Word 2002. The Macintosh version of Rhymer
was released December 2001.
Our experience with the Easy Letters writing program taught us that some of our users could benefit from even more sales and marketing letters than we had included in the original Easy Letters program. Our development team has now created 1,000 additional sales and marketing letters to go with the full content of the original award-wining Easy Letters program, which already contained over 2,000 letters on 500 topics, with sample sentences and phrases. We call the entire new compilation of 3,000 letters Easy Letters Professional. You get the full benefit of the original Easy Letters program, plus 1,000 more sales and marketing letters.
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