Writing Programs

[HigherEd7]

Is anyone using any writing programs to check for grammar errors and other mistakes in their research paper?

[Parasaurolophus]

Clearly not my students.

And professionally, I don't either. But that's just because I'm meticulous, most of my writing is done in the editing process, and I've worked as a copy editor. I don't miss much.

I do when I'm writing anything in French, however, even though it's my mother tongue. I did almost all my schooling in English, and I do almost all my reading in English, so my written French isn't as good as my written English. I mean, it's perfectly fine, but I slip a lot more and I miss my slips a little more easily.

(Ironically, although I did pretty poorly in it, Demotic Greek did more to improve my written French than anything else. It just made everything click.)

[Wahoo Redux]

MSWord has the same ability as Grammerly to check writing----the program will check for run-ons, cliches, passive voice, sentence length, slang, the whole 9 yards; one simply needs to enable these features.  I even saw something on line to the effect of "Grammerly is MSWord, you are just paying for it."

Word is frequently confused, however, and so I rely on my own keen eye...which isn't always so keen.

[adel9216]

I'm not a native English speaker, and I use Grammarly. I am quite satisfied with it.

[cointegrated]

I use MS Word, Grammarly app that comes with Chrome and then a human editor if I can afford it.