1. Grammarly: An Online GrammarCheckerInstructional Tool ReviewGeorge Shamshayooadeh

2. Institutional ContextImmigrant and Generation 1.5 Students placed into(Spanish dominant & English dominantspeakers):1. Developmental English Composition Class2. Freshman English Composition Class Writing and Grammar issues that need to beaddressed 3. Grammar: The Sticky Issue University-Wide Assessment Students performancein grammar, punctuation, and style lagging Needs to be addressed, but many instructors dontlike to teach it the non-interventionist approach Instructor feedback on student papers has had mixedresults at best Is time-consuming and uninteresting to many studentsand some teachers Common understanding of grammar as a set ofprescriptive rules at the sentence level 4. New Approach to GrammarInstruction Teaching grammatical issues in context (textualapproach)Grammar is not unidimensional andmeaningless; it embodies the three dimensions ofmorphosyntax (form), semantics (meaning), andpragmatics (use). (Larsen-Freeman 2) Teaching Standard English Grammar (SEG)should be sold to students as learning animportant language style/register that they wouldadd to their linguistic repertoire and marketability 5. Sample Student Text 6. Summary (Report) 7. Final Analysis Provides students with instantfeedback/suggestions to edit their papers Flexible and available anytime/anywhere Improves the final presentation of studentpapers It has its limitations as a software though(inform students about its limitations)For Instructors: Frees teachers time to focus on the rhetoricaland content-related issues of writing (globalissues) 8. Free Grammarly Resources Grammarly Handbookhttp://handbook.grammarly.comA virtual grammar handbook that describes variousgrammatical rules and offers examples of correct andincorrect use. The rules are broken down into differentcategories that make the site user-friendly. It alsoshares ideas on academic writing, composition, style,and editing. Grammarly Answershttp://answers.grammarly.com/Grammarly Answers is a free service where users canask and answer any question related to Englishgrammar and writing. Any person can ask for helpthere and receive an answer. Additionally, users cantry to answer questions themselves and improve theirEnglish through explaining concepts to others.