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

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

4. 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.

5. Click Writing Assistant to open the Writing Assistant dialog box.

Choose keywords

1. In the Writing Assistant dialog box, locate the Keywords tab.
2. 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.

3. 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.

   
4. Click Generate content guidance to move to the Competitors tab.

Selecting competitors

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

Generating guidance

1. 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.

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

Creating content outline

1. Click the Content outline tab.
2. 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:

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

Adding content to a page

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Using Writing Assistant