Monday, November 12, 2012

Wicked Website for Writers

A most excellent middle school ELA teacher and colleague (Thanks Stacie) showed me an awesome website for writers of all ages...Paper Rater.





Paper Rater will analyze your text, whether it's an essay, short story, narrative, letter or other, for grammar and spelling.  Just copy and paste the text into the appropriate box.

Paper Rater goes beyond normal grammar checkers (Word, Google...), however, and analysis your text by grade level looking for appropriate vocabulary, word (and verb) usage, sentence length and gives useful suggestions.

The real peach for Paper Rater is the Plagiarism Detection.  Paste works cited into the appropriate box and the website will analyze your text for inappropriate uses of other people's work.  For students, this is a real easy way to curb (and learn) how to use research appropriately.  For teacher, this is an easy way to check for plagiarism.


Quick tutorial:




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