Whether you're writing a book crafting a professional email or submitting a paper having professional proofreading software can be a lifesaver but with so many different sets of editing software out there which one gives you the biggest bang for your buck plus isn't just a regular spell checker and grammar checker good enough.
Well in today's video I'm gonna review one of The most popular grammar checkers out there.
Grammarly
- But to do this right I'm gonna show you exactly what Grammarly is and what can do for you.
- As well as the difference between the free version and the premium version.
- And I'll even show You how I use Grammarly in my work life as well as my daily life.
- Also, Be Sure to stay to the end of the Article where I'm gonna tell you a story about How Grammarly actually saved my company from getting ripped off.
Grammarly is my favorite proofreading software it not only helps to check and monitor my online writing like Facebook blogging and even forums.
But helps to Check my papers books and scripts it does this by using three different tools.
1. THERE'S THE GRAMMARLY BROWSER EXTENSION
There's the grammarly browser extension which protects me from stupid mistakes While crafting a not so witty facebook post or comment as well as what i'm Sending an email through gmail or any other online email service.
There Is also the microsoft word and outlook plugin so as to check my documents with A click and later i'll show you exactly why this is much better than words own Spell checker and grammar checker.
However this particular feature is only Available for pc users sorry mac users.
2. DOWNLOADABLE GRAMMARLY PERSONAL EDITOR APP OR ONLINE VERSION
Grammarly personal editor app or online version where you can either use it to type your documents or books or papers copy and paste documents into it or just drag and drop them into Grammarly inside of here I can organize my writing with blog articles my course scripts and even my thesis which I wrote while at Naval Postgraduate School this was a real lifesaver.
GRAMMARLY THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS
1. FREE
With the free version you get access to The browser extension the microsoft word and outlook plug-in and the personal Editor on grammarly and the desktop app.
Inside of those you can check Definitions and synonyms and get access to over 150 different critical and Spelling rule checks you'll also get your writing performance stats via email Which is pretty cool.
2. PREMIUM
Premium you'll get all of that plus an extra 100 plus More critical grammar and spelling checks.
So grammarly is a lot better at its Job you'll also get vocabulary enhancement suggestions genre-specific Writing style checks which is important for those fiction writers out there and Access to grammarly's automatic plagiarism detection system.
SO WHAT DOES PREMIUM ACTUALLY COST AND IS IT WORTH IT?
So what does premium actually cost and is it worth it you could either pay The $29.95 per month which actually kind of sucks or the $59.95 per quarter which really isn't that much better or $139.95 Annually we can all tell which one grammarly wants us to Go to right.
Now i personally pay the annual subscription does everybody have To do that of course not but i do a lot of professional writing on Kindlepreneur.com and i used to get a lot of irate emails from people over a simple Grammar mistake.
I'll also make sure my daughter has it when she goes to college next year because I think this sort of checker can really help her with her papers and so the boost of premium is definitely worth it.
ISN'T JUST THE WORD SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECKER GOOD ENOUGH?
Let's do a side-by-side comparison of words grammar checker to Grammarly free even grammarly premium and see what Happens.
I took a small document and made it error-free as per words grammar and spell checker.
I then copy and pasted the same document into Grammarly free and into a Grammarly premium account as you can see Grammarly free found 16 extra mistakes while premium found even more with 96 mistakes.
Now in truth there were Many suggestions by grammarly that i could disregard but i could not believe Some of the mistakes that word missed.
IS CAN GRAMMARLY REPLACE A PROFESSIONAL EDITOR?
And my answer is no It can't so don't buy grammarly if you're thinking you can cut out paying a Professional editor.
However there are a lot of us out there who wouldn't pay for An editor like you're submitting a paper to a teacher or you're about to send a Proposal to a boss this is where grammarly really shines because it will find a lot Of those issues that will shall we say be a little embarrassing when it gets Out there.
So in the end i'm a pretty big fan of grammarly and i use it myself And if you're interested in picking up either the free or the premium version Be sure to click my affiliate link in below Button.
HOW GRAMMARLY SAVED MY BUSINESS FROM GETTING RIPPED OFF
Now that we Covered what grammarly can do for you as well as some of the differences between Free and premium let me tell you how grammarly saved my business from getting Ripped off.
A while ago i did a check of one of my Techadvancher.xyz articles Through grammarly copyright check and i found that there was a website out There that was using a lot of my content i clicked on the link and what was even Worse was that they were actually claiming it was their own Thanks to grammarly i caught them in the act and now that i know who those.