Thing #6
The 2.0 tool that I chose to explore was the website Grammarly. This website is very neat because it is a grammar checker. Microsoft word and lots of other things just as E-mail contain spell check but many times my professors mark my papers for grammar errors. Grammarly is a solution for Grammar errors! Grammarly is easy to use. All you do is paste the text that you want to check in the box and then push the button. I typed in the sentence "I is goin to the walmarts" just to see if it really works. Grammarly found 4 critical writing issues with in that sentence and told me what they were. That sentence contains a pronoun agreement error and a subject-verb agreement error and two misspelled words. It also checked for plagiarism which is very helpful. I like Grammarly and think that I will use it agian. Grammarly could absolutely be used is a school setting. A teacher could ask her students to check their book reports, or any writing assignment on Grammarly before they turn it in. If a student turns in an assignment with a lot of Grammar errors, a teacher could ask the student to type it into Grammarly and to tell her what mistakes he made as a teaching method.
http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&gclid=COnkrcOIw7UCFQ3NnAod-yUAZw
I have never heard of this website before but it may be one of my new favorites! I am usually able to pick out grammar mistakes but sometimes I'm just not sure (chose, choose? bath, bathe? ugh, I can never remember!) and it's a great tool for students to use, also, to check their work!
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I really like your website Grammarly.com. I have been out of school for many many years and I have issues at times with my grammar and I think this website would be very helpful to me. I have had papers like you said that even after microsoft spell checked and corrected my paper I still get them back with marks for grammer on them. This website can be useful even after or outside of school. I am glad you showed me this website, it will defently be used by me.
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