How to Enhance Your Writing and Grammar

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8 How to Enhance Your Writing and Grammar

Hongfei Mou

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Prompt: Teacher teaches grammar in the colourful classroom.

Introduction

Grammarly is a website business from America. “Grammarly’s communication assistance technology is used by more than 50,000 teams and 30 million people every day. Founded in 2009, Grammarly uses a combination of technological approaches and human expertise to offer unmatched, market-leading communication support to individuals and enterprises.” (Grammarly | LinkedIn, 2021, para 1)

Grammarly is an AI tool to help students and educators to solve grammar issues. “It checks for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, and it enhances vocabulary usage” (Doyle, 2022). Grammarly uses AI which checks the grammar issues under different backgrounds and unsuitable essay format. Educators could use Grammarly to find some unsuitable vocabulary in formal or informal essays. There are lots of essay formats that are hard for students to remember like Chicago, MLA, and APA7th. Educators could use Grammarly to teach students how to use different essay formats.

This tool is suitable for students to check their grammar issues by themselves and educators could use it to help students in essay areas.

Connection to Curriculum

Grammarly is a tool to help students and educators with grammar and spelling issues.

Help teachers teach spelling:

Teachers could use Grammarly to teach spelling in the classroom. “An old plan, and a very good one, is to give out the word to be spelled and have the children tell you what letters to print upon the board to form the word. After it is completed, let them decide if it is written correctly” (Morton, 1872). Teachers could use Grammarly to help students do some exercises by themselves to check whether the answer is correct or not.

Help teachers teach grammar in the classroom:

When students finish their practice writing, teachers could teach students with Grammarly to teach them which one is the correct answer.

There are some classes about writing and grammar:

CC3.4

Write to communicate ideas, information, and experiences pertaining to a topic by creating easy-to-follow writing (including a short report, a procedure, a letter, a story, a short script, and a poem) with a clear purpose, correct paragraph structure, and interesting detail.

AR5.1

Identify strengths in viewing, listening, reading, speaking, writing, and other forms of representing.

CC9.1a

Create various visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts that explore identity (e.g., The Search for Self), social responsibility (e.g., Our Shared Narratives), and efficacy (e.g., Doing the Right Thing).

CC9.4b

Use pragmatic (e.g., inclusive language that supports people across cultures, genders, ages, and abilities), textual (e.g., strong leads, coherent body, and effective endings), syntactic (e.g., subordination to show more precisely the relationships between ideas), semantic/lexical/morphological (e.g., both the denotative and connotative meaning of words), graphophonic (e.g., knowledge of spelling patterns and rules to identify, analyze, and correct spelling errors), and other cues (e.g., combine print and visuals to enhance presentations) to construct and to communicate meaning.

CW20.1

Investigate visual, multimedia, oral and written texts as sources of inspiration for creative writing.

Affordances and Constraints

Advantages:

Grammarly could help students build skills literary of using AI tools: Students could use Grammarly by themselves when students want to check some grammar issues in their essays. Students could learn some basic information about how to use AI tools. Students could learn how to face AI tools in the future.
Grammarly could help students save time by solving some basic or simple issues. Teachers could help students understand how to find their grammar issues. Sometimes, students want to find some help from other people as fast as soon. However, students may be staying at home, so they want to check their grammar issues.

Disadvantages：

Students will use Grammarly without thinking about their grammar issues. Students do not want to think about how to improve their grammar development. Thus, students will overlook their grammar issues to cause their linguistic weakness.
Students may be not coming to grammar classes to learn how to improve their grammar development. The reason is that students could solve their grammar issues by using Grammarly and students are not interested in learning more things about grammar rules.
The freestyle includes Text generation, basic writing suggestions, and tone detection. However, the Premium spends $12 per month, which includes Everything in Free, plus full-sentence rewrites, vocabulary ideas, tone suggestions, and more.

The Process

You should open your Chrome to come to the home page.
Input “grammarly.com” in the search box
Click “Sign up It’s free”
Input the Email address, password, and Name to build an account and click “Agree and Sign up”. If you have Google, Facebook, or Apple, you could also sign with those accounts.
Click “New” to upload your essay
Click “Goals” on the right to find which one is suitable for you to choose.

In the “Audience” part, there are General, Knowledge, and Expert.
In the “Formality” part, there are Informal, Neutral, and Formal.
In the “Domain” part, there are Academic, Business, General, Email, Casual, and Creative.
In the “Intent” part, there are Informal, Describe, Convince, and Tell a Story.

Copy your essay in the left blank area.
There are some suggestions for you to choose how to change those grammar issues.
You could choose which one you want to change in your essay.
After that, you could copy your essay into your document.

Prompt Engineering

Grammarly could provide several suggestions to help you solve grammar issues, but also the app could help you correct your spelling problems. However, you need to think about which one is more suitable for your essay environment.
Sometimes, some suggestions are not suitably used in your essay. Thus you should need your teachers to help you to solve your grammar issues.

Recommendations

Grammarly Blog: Your Ultimate Writing Resource (“https://www.grammarly.com/blog”) is a website to help people understand more things about Grammarly. There are some suggestions from other users to help students understand how to use this application. This website could also help students to understand more things about AI tools.

Grammar Review (https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/grammarly) is a website to help people understand more things about Grammarly. People can learn more about Grammarly on the website.

Informative presentation

Provide a video or presentation (PowerPoint, Genially, etc.) that offers a detailed guide or demonstration of using the tool or performing the task. (max. 10 minutes?)

PPT(https://view.genial.ly/65348978a5eb670011ed4898/video-presentation-how-to-enhance-your-writing-and-grammar)

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References

Doyle, A. (2022, September 19). What is Grammarly? The Balance. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/grammarly-proofreading-and-grammar-checker-review-2062231

Grammarly | LinkedIn. (2021, December 17). Www.linkedin.com. https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammarly

Morton, E. H. (1872). How to Teach Spelling. The Maine Journal of Education, 6(5), 173–174. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44860157

Saskatchewan Curriculum. (n.d.). Saskatchewan Curriculum. Retrieved October 24, 2023, from https://curriculum.gov.sk.ca/CurriculumHome

What is Grammarly? (n.d.). Grammarly Support. https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000090792-What-is-Grammarly-

Acknowledgement of AI Use

There are lots of useful AI tools to help students and educators use some simple methods of studying knowledge. We should think about what we should do to make sure students understand how to use those AI tools. As an educator, I think advantages and disadvantages are both sides of AI tools. If we could use the positive parts and refuse the negative parts, our students would learn more about how to use those AI tools. I believe we could build a suitable environment to use those AI tools.