Grammar. I’m horrible at grammar and would love software that could reliably fix all of my grammatical mistakes. I would pay $400 a year for such software.
I haven’t had much luck with real people proofreading with the exception of my wife who as a classics professor is extremely competent at grammar. (I don’t like having to constantly bug her for help.) I’ve just installed the free Grammarly extension and will see how it works but unless both “who” and “whom” can work in the first sentence it’s far from what I need.
I wonder if there is a market for super real-time proofreading and editing where you can type in sentence fragments and the proofreader will fill in what’s needed?
For some types of writing what I need is a proofreading service whose quality I can rely on so that if I use it I will with very high probability not look bad because of my grammatical mistakes. For other writing (such as most emails and comments like this) I could tolerate a much higher chance of the service not catching everything.
For the high-quality work, I could wait a day or so for the results and would be willing to pay, say, $20 per 500 words. For the other work I would want very quick turnaround and would be willing to pay much less say $2 per 500 words.
Grammar. I’m horrible at grammar and would love software that could reliably fix all of my grammatical mistakes. I would pay $400 a year for such software.
Ok, what do you think of these services:
Grammarly—Claims to be a much smarter grammar checker than MS Word
Wordy—Paid human proofreading with a few-hours turnaround time
Maybe there’s a market for super realtime proofreading, like a Gmail extension where the moment you start typing, there’s someone proofreading?
(3) eangel for emails
I haven’t had much luck with real people proofreading with the exception of my wife who as a classics professor is extremely competent at grammar. (I don’t like having to constantly bug her for help.) I’ve just installed the free Grammarly extension and will see how it works but unless both “who” and “whom” can work in the first sentence it’s far from what I need.
I wonder if there is a market for super real-time proofreading and editing where you can type in sentence fragments and the proofreader will fill in what’s needed?
Can you elaborate about which writings you’d personally use this service for, how your ideal solution would work, and what you’d pay for it?
For some types of writing what I need is a proofreading service whose quality I can rely on so that if I use it I will with very high probability not look bad because of my grammatical mistakes. For other writing (such as most emails and comments like this) I could tolerate a much higher chance of the service not catching everything.
For the high-quality work, I could wait a day or so for the results and would be willing to pay, say, $20 per 500 words. For the other work I would want very quick turnaround and would be willing to pay much less say $2 per 500 words.
Can you send me an email? I’m happy to proofread some stuff for you for free in order to better understand your needs. (I’m actually good at that.)
wiseguy@gmail.com