Exploring the use of grammarly in assessing English academic writing
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This study explores the extent to which Grammarly can be a reliable assessment tool for academic English writing. Ten articles published in high-status scholarly Q.1 journals and written by specialist English native speakers were used to evaluate the accuracy of Grammarly's flagged issues. The results showed that Grammarly tends to over-flag many issues resulting in many false positives; besides, it does not take into consideration optional usage in English. The study concluded that although Grammarly can identify many ambiguous instances of language use that writers would do well to review and consider for revision, it does not seem to be a reliable tool for assessing academic written English.
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- Authors
- Abu Qub'a, A., Abu Guba, M. N., & Fareh, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Sharjah (AE)
- Corresponding author
- Fareh, Shehdeh
- Venue
- Heliyon
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- e34893
- ISSN
- 2405-8440 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC11327564
- OpenAlex
- W4400881016
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 2
- FWCI
- 22.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Heliyon (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- King Faisal University (6194)
- Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- Grammarly, automated writing evaluation, English academic writing, false positives, scholarly journal articles
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