Virtual
Writing Tutor is a free grammar checker that finds common spelling and grammar
errors for learners of English as a second language. It is quick and easy to
use with good feedback. Good
ESL pedagogy is also served when a student receives corrective feedback in a
timely fashion.
With
an impact on workload, teachers usually do not assign more than one or two
350-500 word writing assignments per semester. Automatic corrective feedback on
errors, should therefore free teachers from the most time-consuming element of
writing evaluation and allow them to set additional writing assignments. More
assignments will lead to more writing practice, more corrective feedback, and
better learning.
Here is a paragraph about ‘My Village’ written by a student
of class five.
My village (Class-Five)
The name of my village Ajkitala. its
locate under the district narsingdi.
there are 5000 people in our village. the most people are muslim. the people
are farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people buy fish and vegetable from bazar.
we love village.
I have paste the text on virtual
writing tutor. It shows statistics. Clicking
on check spelling I have found that there are six words which are wrong. Moreover
there are also capitalization problem in the text. Problems with phrasal
possessive form, proper use of word, sentence verb agreement etc. VWT (Virtual
Writing Tutor) is definitely a good one but not sufficient enough.
The feedback of the small piece of
writing (text) from VWT (Virtual Writing Tutor) is given bellow:
Statistics :
Word count: 44
Sentence count: 8
Average Words/Sentence: 6
- You
wrote: The name of my village Ajkitala.
its locate under the district narsing...
Feedback: This is awkward. You have used the phrasal possessive form where the apostrophe + s form would be more natural. Revise: 'my village's name'. - You wrote: The name of my village
Ajkitala. its locate under the district
narsingdi. t...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter . - You
wrote: ...s locate under the district narsingdi. there
are 5000 people in our village. the mos...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter . - You
wrote: .... there are 5000 people in our village. the most people are muslim. the people are ...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter . - You
wrote: ...ple in our village. the most people are muslim. the people are farmar. there are a hat...
Feedback: Proper names begin with a capital letter. Always capitalize people's names, days of the week, months, cities, provinces, countries, languages, and nationalities. For this reason, the word 'muslim' should probably be uppercase: 'Muslim'.
Link: Capitalization error. - You
wrote: ...ur village. the most people are muslim. the people are farmar. there are a hat,a ba...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter. - You
wrote: ...ople are muslim. the people are farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people buy fish...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter . - You
wrote: ...ople are muslim. the people are farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people buy fish and
veget...
Feedback: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'there is a hat'? - You wrote: .... the people are
farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people
buy fish and vegetab...
Feedback: Put a space after the comma - You
wrote: ...ple are farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people buy fish and vegetable from baza...
Feedback: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead. - You
wrote: ...e farmar. there are a hat,a bazer also. people buy fish and vegetable from bazar. we l...
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter - You
wrote: ...ople buy fish and vegetable from bazar. we love village.
Feedback: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
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