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Paperrater. Com Student Evaluation Report

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I teach a writing only class of all girls in Charleston, SC. Naturally they technology I chose to evaluate was Paperrater.com. At first glance, I was stunned. My response was, “Wow, where were you in college”? However, as far as classroom application, I would rate this site at the very minimum. Although there are great benefits to using this website, as well as some drawbacks, there are also very limited ways to monitor or adjust the sight if usage was required by an instructor. The site does assist with meeting the state standard for 7th grade writing 7-W.4.1.a-c, which states the following…
4.1 When writing: a. show knowledge of the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences; b. choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas; and c. use phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. Paperrater.com is a teacher friendly site that checks papers for a wide range of spelling and grammatical errors. It scores your writing based on word choice, transitions, and spelling but lacks the ability to evaluate logic and analysis of the topic. This particular site however would not be used during a discussion, student …show more content…

It could catch errors that may not be caught during peer editing. It also gives suggestions as far as vocabulary level, phrase usage, transitional style (based on phrases used), and even passive and active voice, based on the education level that is inputted. These all can give the students a sense of where they stand in correspondence to their peers. This would be the only research-based principle that the technology also meets, because it offers you a comparison saying for example “You did better than 71% of the people in your grade” in this

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