Topic: Grammer Software

I've no doubt there are previous posts on this subject but after several minutes, (okay maybe several seconds.) of searching I thought I'd take the easiest route.
I'm nearly at a milestone for me, which is I'm pretty much finished my first (on second attempt.) novel. I want to run it through grammar checkers for the usual mistakes before grinding the chapters through TNBW. You know the usual suspects? Over use of words, too long a sentence etc. So I've been looking into the best ones out there.  See here for reviews:    http://writing-enhancement-software-rev … eview.html       

I've settled on two candidates:-

1. Whitesmoke.    http://www.whitesmoke.com

2. Grammarly Premium   https://nspl.grammarly.com

The reviews for both are great so I can't decide what one to chose. Does anyone have either of these, opinions please?

Thanks

David

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I have Grammarly installed  on my browser and find it very useful although a bit annoying. It sometimes has problems with online text boxes and scrolling. I haven't upgraded to the Premium version yet although I will probably do so. If you do, let me know how it works.

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3 Reply by Tom Oldman (edited by Tom Oldman 2015-05-22 00:01:40)

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I've tried the free trial at Whitesmoke and passed it one of my short stories. It refused to continue because it "detected significant signs of plagiarism". Um, what? This was one of MY short stories, so undoubtedly it managed to find it posted at Booksie and here. Apparently, there is no way to bypass this bogus charge, so I can't use it as I posted my novels elsewhere.

Grammarly did the same, but gave me proofed results anyway. i didn't go on to create an account, though.

~Tom

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Re: Grammer Software

Thanks Cobber, Tom.

Tom, if you had had no issue with the plagiarism, what were your thoughts on it, would it be worth the money?

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Good morning, David.

I'd probably go with Grammarly, I feel certain that if I'd gone ahead and created an account, that somewhere I'd be able to turn off the "plagiarism" switch by telling it that it was finding my own work. If not, then I'd just ignore it. For the one short story I submitted, it found 2 misused words, several phrasings that could be improved, and some mixed tenses. Funnily enough, I suspect that they were the same ones pointed out to me by my own reviewers. So, I get the feeling that one might want to use this site before ever submitting it to any peer-review group, but not afterwards.

~Tom

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If you are using Office 2013, there's an app in Word called ProWriting aid that I find quite useful. There are a variety of reports to choose so you spend less time waiting to get the feeback you want.

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How much does it cost, Matthew? I'm on a very limited budget.

~Tom

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