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title: "Using Writing Assistant"
date: "2025-12-10T18:43:03+00:00"
summary: "Optimize content creation with AI-powered Writing Assistant. Get real-time feedback, keyword insights, and competitor analysis to improve your writing."
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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
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*   [Request access to Writing Assistant](/acquia-source/requesting-access-writing-assistant "Requesting 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
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S.No.

Task

Description

1

[Access Writing Assistant](#access-writing-assistant)

Access the Writing Assistant interface containing the following tabs:

*   **Keywords**
*   **Competitors**
*   **Guidance**
*   **Content outline**

2

[Choose keywords](#choose-keywords)

Enter keywords for Writing Assistant guidance.

3

[Select competitors](#selecting-competitors)

Select competitors from the list of competing content from the web that uses similar keywords.

4

[Generate guidance](#generate-guidance)

Review the generated content suggestions in the following guidance categories:

*   **Objective**
*   **Audience**
*   **Journey** **stage**
*   **Content** **type**

5

[Create content outline](#create-content-outline)

Create a content outline manually or generate AI-assisted drafts of content for the following fields:

*   **Title Tag**
*   **Meta Description**
*   **Content**

6

[Add content to a page](#adding-content-to-page)

Add a **Text** component, and paste the content.

Accessing Writing Assistant
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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](/acquia-source/drupal-canvas-user-interface "Drupal Canvas user interface").
    
5.  Click **Writing Assistant** to open the Writing Assistant dialog box.

Choose keywords
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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.
    
    ![Search volume data showing total monthly searches: 555,370. Categories include Drupal, Acquia Source, SEO, tools. Rank 1 potential clicks per month: 60,686.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/007bc9cc-c65d-460b-b20c-05ef796f85ad/web/Acquia%20Source%20Writing%20Assistant%20-%20evaluation%20results.png?w=480&itok=TiVO_vaj)
    
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.
    
    ![Interface menu with options: Section, Spacer, Text (highlighted), and Two Column Text, each with a purple icon.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/709a118e-4c71-4a08-b10b-209f580877b5/web/Acquia%20Source%20Writing%20Assistant%20-%20choosing%20text%20component%20to%20add%20to%20page.png?w=480&itok=7JYWfvpX)
    
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.
    
    ![Popup window showing two unpublished changes: untitled pages edited 1 minute and 1 hour ago. Options to select and review changes.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/ef5cb0e1-0954-4846-ad26-23de31b08c4a/web/Acquia%20Source%20Writing%20Assistant%20-%20Review%20changes.png?w=480&itok=Bk81kpQA)
    
5.  Select the changes that you want to publish and then click **Publish \[#\] changes**.