Grammarly is a popular writing tool that checks for spelling and grammar errors, offers additional advice to improve writing, and features a new generative AI writing assistant.
As a professional writer, I find it serves as a helpful “second pair of eyes,” frequently catching wrong or poor word choices and awkward phrasings in my work. I also recommend it for my writing students because I think it can help them improve their writing – though as with any tech-based writing assistant, it’s not perfect and will miss mistakes, or on rare occasions, provide recommendations that I don’t agree with from a stylistic perspective. That’s also true of its AI features, which are dazzling when working well but can also provide inaccurate information and sometimes offers to do the writing for a student, which is obviously not ideal.
