Thing #6

As a future English teacher, I'm drooling on myself a little over GrammarBase.  This goes beyond the grammar and spell check on Microsoft Word.  It tells you if you're being redundant, using passive voice, and just general punctuation mistakes.  Copy and paste a whole text into a box and in a matter of seconds you have words and phrases underlined in different colors depending on the mistake. One thing I do not like about this program is that it does not give you options on how to correct the mistake.  It gives you an offer for their professional proofreader to fix the mistakes for you at the price of $15.45 per page which I personally did not care for. This could be a great teaching tool since it does not give away the answers. A willing student could have his or her assignment put into GrammarBase and as a class go over the mistakes together. Knowing middle school students like I do, they would most likely turn it into a game to see whose assignment would be underlined the least. As long as they're taking in what is being taught that is perfectly fine with me!