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Grammarly, Inc.
Grammarly logo
Screenshot of Grammarly website
Screenshot of Grammarly.com
Type of businessCorporation
Founded2009
HeadquartersSan Francisco (with an additional office in Kiev)
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn
Key peopleBrad Hoover (CEO)
ProductsGrammar checker, Spell checker
ServicesProofreading, Plagiarism detection
URLGrammarly.com
RegistrationOptional (required for higher privileges)
Users3,000,000 plus
Current statusActive

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

  1. ^ "Grammarly.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "Grammarly - Review". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ^ 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)
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ a b c "Grammarly - Specifications". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Wanda Richards. "Need Help with Grammar?". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ "2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ "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)
  14. ^ 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)
  15. ^ "Grammarly - Grammarly@edu". KDU University College. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "Grammarly - Grammarly@EDU". Henderson State University. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ "Online Writing Center - Grammarly formerly SentenceWorks". Walden University. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ "Grammarly" (PDF). DeVry University. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. ^ 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)
  20. ^ "Best Overall Brand Presence on Facebook > Finalists > Grammarly". Shorty Awards. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  21. ^ "Grammarly Nominated for Best Web Services & Applications Website in the 17th Annual Webby Awards". WND.com. April 11, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ Contemporary Business Reports (5th/International ed.). Cengage Learning. 2012. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9781133435334. Retrieved May 1, 2013. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  24. ^ "Contemporary Business Reports, International Edition". Cengage Learning. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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