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. 

Prerequisites

• Request access to Writing Assistant
• Get user roles and permissions to edit content on the Acquia Source site where Writing Assistant is enabled.

Checklist for using Writing Assistant

Accessing Writing Assistant

• Access your site.
• In the left sidebar, click Pages to access the content overview.
• Do one of the following:
  • To create a new page, click + Add Page.
  • To edit an existing page, locate the page and click Edit.

• 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 dialog box.

Choose keywords

• In the Writing Assistant dialog box, locate the Keywords tab.
• On the Keywords tab, enter up to five keywords for your content page.
  • To save a keyword, press Enter.
  • To add multiple keywords, insert a comma after each keyword.
  • To remove a keyword, click the X icon 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 Generate content guidance to move to the Competitors tab.

Selecting competitors

• On the Competitors tab, clear the checkboxes for non-competing pages to generate specific guidance and improve your content against the remaining selections.
• Click Generate content guidance to move to the Guidance tab.

Generating guidance

• On the Guidance tab, review and customize the generated content suggestions in the following guidance categories:
  • Objective: The objective of your page.
  • Audience: The audiences of your page.

  • Journey stage: The customer journey stage of your page.

    Ensure that you match your content to the customer journey stage of highly ranked pages to improve the ranking of your page.

  • Content type: The content type of your page.

    Ensure that you match your content to the formats of highly ranking pages to improve the ranking of your page.

• To override content suggestions in a guidance category, click its corresponding customize link.

Creating content outline

• Click the Content outline tab.
• Enter content in the following fields manually, or click the lightbulb icon to generate AI-assisted drafts of content:
  • Title tag: Click the lightbulb icon for this field to view multiple options, and select a preferred option. To generate more options, select the lightbulb icon again.
  • Meta description: Click the lightbulb icon for this field to view multiple options, and select a preferred option. To generate more options, select the lightbulb icon again.
  • Content: Select the lightbulb icon for this field to view the following options:
    • Replace with generated outline: Creates an outline for the content based on keywords, competition selected, and guidance content in the previous steps.
      • (Optional) Edit the content by using the WYSIWYG editorial tools.

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

      To generate an AI-assisted draft of content:

      • Provide information in the Tone and style, Terms to exclude, and Additional instructions fields.
      • Click Generate content.
      • (Optional) Edit the content by using the WYSIWYG editorial tools.
      • (Optional) Select a section of the content to edit. The lightbulb icon moves to the selected section and provides the additional following options:
        • Expand selection: Creates an expended version of a selected text.
          • To accept the expanded text version, click Insert text.
        • Shorten selection: Creates a shortened version of a selected text.
          • To accept the shortened text version, click Insert text.
• Click Copy Text. 

Adding content to a page

• On Drupal Canvas toolbar on the left, click the Library (+) icon to open the Component Library.
  Note

  To access the Drupal Canvas behind the Writing Assistant dialog box, select its toolbar to move it to another location.

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

  
• In the Settings tab on the right, past the the content into the Text field.

• Click Preview in the upper right corner of the page to review the changes.

  Click Review [#] changes in the upper right corner of the page to review and publish the changes.

  In this example, [#] represents the number of unsaved changes to the page.

  
• Select the changes that you want to publish and then click .

Using Writing Assistant