Writing Assistant helps you create excellent content by providing real-time feedback while you write and edit. AI-generated insights help you determine the questions your audience wants answered, the keywords to target, and how to make your content search-friendly. To create new, optimized content, you must have permission to edit content on the Acquia Source site where Writing Assistant is enabled.

To use Writing Assistant:

• Access your site.
• In the left sidebar, click Pages to access the content overview.
• Click +Add Page to start adding new content.

• On the resulting Drupal Canvas page, click the Extensions icon in the left sidebar to access available extensions.

  For more information, visit Drupal Canvas user interface.

• Click Writing Assistant to open the Writing Assistant panel.

  

• On the Keywords tab, enter up to five keywords for your content page.

  • To save a keyword, add a comma after the keyword.
  • To remove a keyword, click the "X" next to the keyword.
  

• Click Evaluate to generate a report with details of search volume of each keyword and potential clicks per month.

  This information can be used to adjust the keywords as needed.

  

• Click the Competitors tab.

  The tab displays a list of competing content from the web that uses similar keywords. By default, checkboxes for all competing content pages are all selected.

• Clear the checkboxes for the pages that are unlikely to compete with yours to generate specific guidance on improving your content compared to the remaining selected pages.

  

• Click the Content Outline tab

  The tab displays fields for Title Tag, Meta Description, and Content, each with a lightbulb icon.

  

• Enter content into each field manually, or click the lightbulb icon to generate AI-assisted drafts of content.

  If you click the lightbulb icon for Title tag and Meta description, several options are displayed. You can select a preferred option or click the lightbulb icon again to generate more options.

  

  If you click the lightbulb icon for Content, two options are displayed:

  

  • Replace with generated outline: Creates an outline for the content based on keywords and competition selected in previous steps.

    
  • Replace with generated draft: Creates a complete draft of the content based on keywords and competition selected in the previous steps.

    • Complete the fields for tone and style, terms to exclude, and additional instructions on the form.

      

Placing content on the page

• In the Drupal Canvas user interface, click the "+" icon to add a component to the page.

• Select the Text component, and drag and drop it onto the page.

  
• To use the generated content, copy and paste the content into this text field.

• To publish the changes, click Review [#] changes in the upper right corner of the page,

  [#] represents the number of unsaved changes to the page.

  

• Select the changes that you want to publish and then click Publish {#] changes.

  [#] represents the number of changes you selected to publish.

Enhancing existing content

With Writing Assistant, you can enhance existing content. Edit existing articles to view content scores and get improvement suggestions, helping you refine your content for better results.

Using Writing Assistant