Grammarly.com
What is it? How to use it? Why do I need it?
Vic Simmons
What is Grammarly?
How to check your paper using Grammarly - getting to the site, navigating the site, how to “read” the feedback, what to do with the feedback
An online “proofreader” to help check rough or final drafts for correctness in areas like spelling and grammar.
Getting Started
opens your computer’s file explorer
opens a new grammarly document
What does Grammarly tell me? | |
Overall Score | A numerical score that gives you a general idea of how your writing might be graded. |
Goals | Questions about audience, formality, etc. to think about how your writing comes across. |
Correctness | Grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors that have been flagged by Grammarly. |
Clarity | How easy to understand your writing is and how clearly your ideas are communicated. |
Engagement | Suggestions to make your writing more specific, vivid, and engaging. |
Delivery | How the tone of your writing comes across: formal, casual, confident, funny, etc. |
Plagiarism | Checks to make sure quotes and sources are properly attributed. |
Optional (but helpful!)
Consider the tone you want your writing to convey:
Reading Feedback
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Editing suggestions and what to do with them
Types of Feedback
This is Grammarly’s best guess at how your writing might be graded (but don’t take this too seriously).
This section is our main focus. Here, we can see suggestions to improve grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Clicking on this section shows information such as your word count, readability scores, and average sentence length.
Editing for Correctness
Next to your writing, Grammarly will show a list of suggestions to improve your writing. Clicking on a suggestion will provide a short explanation about the editing suggestion.
Clicking on the highlighted words will automatically apply Grammarly’s suggestion
IMPORTANT
Do NOT rely on Grammarly to know exactly what you are trying to say in your writing. Grammar and correctness suggestions are highly dependent on the specific context you have used them in. Make sure to consider each suggestion for yourself and decide if you should apply Grammarly’s changes.
If Grammarly Tells Me…
Should I Change It?
Practice Activity
Example #1
“…this drastic realization during my junior year of high school revealed to me…”
Original
“…this drastic realization during my junior year of the high school revealed to me…”
With Grammarly’s Suggestion
Example #2
“Specifically in the context of marginalized identities, this lack of representation prevents many adolescents and young adults from effectively exploring their own identities.”
Original
“Specifically, in the context of marginalized identities, this lack of representation prevents many adolescents and young adults from effectively exploring their own identities.”
With Grammarly’s Suggestion
Example #3
“Identity is how we see ourselves, but specifically how we relate our own experiences to the experiences of others.”
Original
“Identity is how we see ourselves, specifically how we relate our own experiences to the experiences of others.”
With Grammarly’s Suggestion
What other words could we use to replace “but”?
Your Turn!
Log into Grammarly.com and explore using a piece of your own writing.
While Exploring… Think: What
Do You Notice?