![]() Grammarly also checks your copy on the internet for plagiarism. (Unfortunately I couldn't find my copy of Joyce's “Ulysses”, with which I'd wanted to really freak it out.) I was not surprised when it gave the beginning of an essay by George Orwell 100% approval, nor when it was bewildered by the opening of Virginia Woolf's “Mrs Dalloway”. Intrigued, I input passages by two of my writing heroes. It did catch some of these errors, but ignored many others, or suggested corrections that were inappropriate or unnecessary. To test its claims, I input a lot of different sample texts, some full of errors, some flawless. It claims to check text against 250 grammatical rules, some of which flash up tantalisingly on screen during processing. For each style, it applies a different set of algorithms. Unlike most spellcheckers that come as standard with word processing and blogging packages, Grammarly differentiates between six styles of prose – general, business, academic, technical, creative or casual (the default). It considers grammar, punctuation, spelling, typos and style, and also offers an online thesaurus. Grammarly is an automated online system that instantly checks submitted text for accuracy. Could it be just what indie authors need to debug their manuscripts at little or no cost? Encouraged by bold claims in Grammarly's marketing material (“the world's most accurate grammar checker”), the company's 739K likes on Facebook and my unfailing spirit of optimism, I approached my test drive with high hopes. I was therefore interested to learn about the online service Grammarly, a souped-up spellchecker with lots of extra bells and whistles. Yet as an indie author, I understand the temptation to bypass professional proofreading if you're trying to self-publish a book on a tight budget. ALLi blog editor Debbie Young tests the online service Grammarly as a potential proofreading tool for indie authors.Īs an avid reader of self-published books, I know how galling it is to have the flow of a good story interrupted by typos and grammatical errors.
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