Grammarly
| Grammarly logo | |
| Screenshot of Grammarly website Screenshot of Grammarly.com | |
| Type of business | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco (with an additional office in Kiev) |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn |
| Key people | Brad Hoover (CEO) |
| Products | Grammar checker, Spell checker |
| Services | Proofreading, Plagiarism detection |
| URL | Grammarly.com |
| Registration | Optional (required for higher privileges) |
| Users | 3,000,000 plus |
| Current status | Active |
Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009. Grammarly's proofreading and plagiarism-detection capabilities[2] check for a writer's adherence to more than 250 grammar rules.[3][4][5]
History
The company was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn when they were both 28 years old.[5] It was incorporated in August 2011.[6] Brad Hoover, the company's chief executive officer,[7] is an investor with a background in engineering who learned about Grammarly while searching for an automated proofreading tool for his own writing.[8]
In an interview with Don Tennant, published on November 5, 2012 by IT Business Edge (owned and administered by QuinStreet), Hoover said that the goal of Grammarly is to perfect written English.[8]
Grammarly, Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Kiev, Ukraine.[6][8]
Features
To use Grammarly, writers copy and paste text into a field on the home page and then press a "Start Review" button.[2] Grammarly then carries out more than 250 grammar checks; it proofreads and detects plagiarism in the process and finally provides users with a list of possible errors for correction.[9]
During its text review, Grammarly presents potential errors one at a time, with commonly confused words or faulty sentences highlighted in light red and a text box below offering an explanation that provides good and bad examples and suggests corrections. Grammarly also provides citations when it detects plagiarism.[9] Users can click on a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" icon to let Grammarly know if the result was helpful. A "Next" arrow lets the user move to the succeeding editing suggestion.[2]
Other features of Grammarly include:[9][10]
- A grammar checker that can analyze general, business, academic, technical, creative and casual writings.
- A contextual spell checker that determines the appropriate spelling of a word as it is used in a sentence; thus, it finds misspelled words and also identifies correctly spelled yet incorrectly used words.
- Grammarly Plug-in for Microsoft Office, which adds Grammarly to Microsoft Word and Outlook.
- A thesaurus that suggests synonyms or words with similar meanings.
- Grammarly Answers, in which users can ask questions and post "error cards" from their scanned writings.
- Grammarly Handbook, which covers grammar, writing style and word choice.
Association
Grammarly Inc. collaborated with The New York Times,[11] AARP The Magazine and other organizations to celebrate the National Day on Writing in 2012.[5] It received Better Business Bureau accreditation in 2012.[6]
Recognitions
In the 2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews, Grammarly won the TopTenReviews Gold Award, with a rating of 8.88.[2][12]
University of Saskatchewan,[13] University of Queensland,[14] KDU University College,[15] Henderson State University,[16] Walden University[17] and DeVry University[18] license Grammarly for use by their students.
On October 23, 2012, Elad Nehorai wrote in the The Huffington Post that Grammarly has some 300,000-plus Facebook likes.[19]
On April 9, 2013, Grammarly was chosen as a finalist in the fifth annual Shorty Industry Awards for Best Overall Brand Presence on Facebook.[20] In the same month, the platform was nominated for Best Web Services and Applications website in the 17th annual Webby Awards.[21]
In her book, Become a Freelance Writer: Your Complete Guide to the Business of Writing, Rachael Oku wrote, "Aptly named, Grammarly is the most popular tool to help detect poor grammar."[22] Shirley Kuiper and Dorinda A. Clippinger wrote in their book, Contemporary Business Reports that "This checker performs 150 grammar checks, including contextual spelling, and returns a summary, a list of the lapses, and a brief analysis of each category."[23][24]
See also
References
- ^ "Grammarly.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Grammarly - Review". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Geeta Padmanabhan (September 21, 2011). "Cool tool". The Hindu. The Hindu Group. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|newspaper=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Lee Chang-sup (May 1, 2012). "English again in New Year's resolution?". The Korea Times. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|newspaper=(help) - ^ a b c Cheryl Conner (October 21, 2012). "I Don't Tolerate Poor Grammar". Forbes. Forbes publishing. pp. 1–2. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|magazine=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c "BBB Business Review - Grammarly, Inc". Better Business Bureau. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Alison Doyle. "Resume Grammar Errors to Avoid". About.com Guide. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c Don Tennant. "How Cloud Power Is Improving Written English". IT Business Edge by QuinStreet. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c "Grammarly - Specifications". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Wanda Richards. "Need Help with Grammar?". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Katherine Schulten (October 19, 2012). "Celebrate the National Day On Writing by Posting #WhatIWrite Messages on Twitter". The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|newspaper=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Information for Students - Grammarly Pilot Project: Your How to Guide". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Tristine Blackall (June 22, 2012). "Try 'Grammarly' for help with your writing". University of Queensland. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Grammarly - Grammarly@edu". KDU University College. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Grammarly - Grammarly@EDU". Henderson State University. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Online Writing Center - Grammarly formerly SentenceWorks". Walden University. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Grammarly" (PDF). DeVry University. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Elad Nehorai (October 23, 2012). "America's Obsession With Grammar and What It Means". The Huffington Post. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Best Overall Brand Presence on Facebook > Finalists > Grammarly". Shorty Awards. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ "Grammarly Nominated for Best Web Services & Applications Website in the 17th Annual Webby Awards". WND.com. April 11, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ Rachael Oku (March 11, 2013). Become a Freelance Writer: Your Complete Guide to the Business of Writing (1st ed.). Harriman House Limited. ISBN 9781908003621. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ Contemporary Business Reports (5th/International ed.). Cengage Learning. 2012. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9781133435334. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
{{cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ "Contemporary Business Reports, International Edition". Cengage Learning. Retrieved May 1, 2013.