Jim,
Thanks for passing along the information about this grammar checking program.  I'd like to hear ideas about ways in which our group might use this software to help our students improve their writing skills.  Would it be helpful if students used the grammar checker before they turn papers in to us?

This reminds me of a comment I heard recently in which a teacher suggested that we allow our students to use Turnitin.com to check their own work BEFORE they submit papers to us.  The person who made the comment said Turnitin.com could be used to help students learn how to properly cite works.
Interesting - - yes?
Thanks
Janet


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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:13:48 -0400
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Subject: Status of Computer's Ability to do Grammer Checking

TBers,

I am sometimes asked by faculty or students, "how good are computers at checking grammar?"   Well if they were really good, you'd never see a grammar error in my posts!!  Still, there are grammar checking services that are getting "pretty good."  Here is the latest of them, thank to Dr. Mohammad for passing this along to me.  I also posted a recent review of this service.

http://www.grammarly.com/

A review of it can be found here:

http://online-grammar-check-review.toptenreviews.com/grammarly-review.html

Mr. James B. Greenberg
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