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Download full textHaist, Caroline – 2000
This paper addresses the question of how grammar checkers may help or hinder students by analyzing the performance of the Microsoft Word 97's Grammar Checker at flagging and explaining errors frequently made by college students. Thousands of sentences were fed into the program. Results indicate that it caught some of the errors reliably (e.g.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Error Correction, Grammar, Higher Education
