Why a Writer’s Grammarly Score and Report Matters
Stop making it easy for editors to reject your work.
There’s a vast misconception about Grammarly’s purpose, how it works, and its reliability factor. Some writers give this editing tool way too much credit. For others, Grammarly is the bane of their writing existence. Delve deeper, though, and you’ll learn that Grammarly has an important seat at the writing-editing table.
As I previously wrote, a plagiarism check is step one for many editors. Since this vital tool is included with a Grammarly Premium subscription, it’s often the go-to plan. The free version lacks plenty of other features, too, including analyzing consistency in spelling and fluency and suggested sentence rewrites for clarity.
Writing is a high-level task. According to psychologist Tom Stafford, reading someone else’s work is easier than reviewing one’s own writing.
“When you’re writing, you’re trying to convey meaning… We don’t catch every detail… Rather, we take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning.”
— Tom Stafford
Writer Nick Stockton summarizes it well: “The reason we don’t see our own typos is because what we see on the screen is competing with the version that exists in our heads.”
