Grammarly for fast and confident communication
Hi, I’m Ash Blackmoore and I’m a freelance content writer. I write blog posts in SaaS and Fiction Writing niches.
Part of my daily activity is communication. Either it is sending cold emails to prospects or casual commenting on social media. It’s a hard requirement for me if I want to succeed in my field.
But most of the time is a major headache for me and here is why.
The Grammar. A thing, I hope, would fix itself.
Above I said that sending letters to my potential clients is a huge part of my daily activity.
Let’s put ourselves in the skin of a business owner or content manager of the business. You are a busy person; you don’t have time for the fuss. You need the best solution right now and you want your potential partners to present it flawlessly or at least decently. If a person who propose their solution didn’t even try to present it in a readable, easy to digest form; why bother with them?
Being grammatically incorrect is the shortest way to be ignored. That is where the root of my problem is lies.
I’m bad at grammar. Okay okay, I’m suck at grammar.
The fact, that I’m a non-native English speaker and live in a country, where people either don’t speak English at all or don’t do it on a day-to-day basis, doesn’t help me out.
It is a nasty problem, but it has a nice and simple solution.
The Grammarly. Let me show you it’s features.
First thing first, what is Grammarly?
In short, Grammarly is a free spelling and grammar checking software. But it’s more like a magic wand for people like me. It does bibbidi bobbidi boo, and all problems are gone!
Web Integration.
Grammarly can integrate directly in your web browser.
What does it mean? It means that Grammarly has access for any text area tag on almost all websites. Through that feature I can use Grammarly in any web application that runs inside of my web browser: social media platform, streaming platforms and most important for me, mail apps like Gmail or Outlook.
Because of that feature I can use Grammarly on the go, without copy pasting text back and forth between windows. For me it’s important because I have a short attention span; and less I jump between browser tabs, then less chance I have to open a new one and procrastinate.
Grammar and Spelling Check.
That one is kinda obvious but with pleasant additions.
Words spelling check, punctuation check all that you will find here. Besides that, they have a cool feature without which any spelling checking app would be in tremendous disadvantage. I speak about synonyms searching features. Just double click on the desired word and boom you have a list of the words that could replace it and mean the same thing. It’s quite neat.
One more small feature is funny one. Tone checker. If you want to be as friendly as possible, or, for some reasons, so wrathful that dark lords of fiction worlds would line up to take a lesson from you. Grammarly provide you their tone checking feature. For me personally it isn’t so important but it’s a cool one and if you want to experiment with your letters styles, it will serve you well.
Beyond app. The Blog.
Here the third avenue where the Grammarly team comes to help.
They have a cool blog. It contains a lot of good articles about a variety of writing topics: from creating space for good writing, to tips on how to make writing easier, or how to communicate with people better through your writing.
Also, they have a cool series of blogs about tricky English grammar. Have a problem with commas? Those people nailed it. Read it, it is helpful.
Go and read it! Commas are matters.
Overall.
I would be short with that one.
If you need a good easy-to-use grammar checking software. Software that integrated in your browser and provide ability to check your writing on the spot.
Give Grammarly a go. I use it more than year so far and I like it.
