Resource Review: Grammarly

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Grammarly focuses on standards and habits for writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on communication in context rather than grammar for the sake of grammar. If you are interested in communication, editing, style, voice, or readability, keep listening.

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Articles from Grammarly

How to Create a Style Guide for Your Business (Taryn Barnes)

What Is Readability? (Jennifer Calonia)

30 Tips to Make Writing Easier (Karen Hertzberg)

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Hi there. I’m Allison, a communication consultant at Allison Stein Consulting, LLC. Today I want to take a closer look at one of my favorite editing and publishing resources: Grammarly.

Grammarly focuses on standards and habits for writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on communication in context rather than grammar for the sake of grammar.

If you are interested in communication, editing, style, voice, or readability, keep listening.

Grammarly has published tips on maintaining a consistent voice across multiple writers on a team, thoughts on why (and how) to measure reader friendliness, and general recommendations for communicating well in a professional setting.

Let’s talk about some key articles.

In “How to Create a Style Guide for Your Business,” Taryn Barnes explains the benefits of writing in the voice of the organization rather than the individual, selecting a grammar stylebook to use across multiple contributors, gathering templates for commonly created documents, and building personas based on different audience sectors.

In “What Is Readability?” Jennifer Calonia discusses readability metrics, the importance of accounting for gaps between writer and reader with regard to vocabulary or mental maps, factors that affect readability, and tools for measuring the ease or difficulty of reading.

In “30 Tips to Make Writing Easier,” Karen Hertzberg recommends experimenting with outlines and other prewriting strategies, taking a break between drafts, establishing a regular writing routine, seeking feedback from beta readers, and cultivating a support system of trusted peers and mentors.

Grammarly looks at the field of editing in a holistic way. Although select posts address specific rules, such as work-arounds for common grammatical errors, the blog as a whole focuses on communication. The Grammarly blog publishes articles about how to approach common genres of writing in the workplace as well as general strategies for writing clearly and economically. It is based on the premise that everybody is a writer in some capacity.

Because Grammarly is a companion to the writing checker of the same name, many blog entries draw from insights about common missteps in a genre, whether at the grammatical or global level. For example, a Grammarly article might frame suggestions for a writing routine based on data about what time of day people are least prone to make errors.

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