Grammarly Is Destroying Your Ability To Write
Which is fine, it isn’t supposed to make you a better writer.
I stared at the email for a while, not entirely sure how to respond.
“But Grammarly said everything was fine!”
This was a writer I was working with at a recent contract gig, one where I was wholly tasked with providing editorial oversight to the team of writers, the one where the manager of the website wanted to elevate the level of content they were creating for their audience.
Grammarly said everything was fine.
And I had instructed everyone to do a pass on their work with Grammarly before they submitted their work to me. It was right there in the submission notes, a required step, a fatal error on my part.
Or was it? Could it be that Grammarly had wholly destroyed this writer’s ability to write?
Has it ruined writing for everyone?
How it used to be: if what I had written wasn’t up to par, I rewrote it. By hand, in ink, on wide-ruled paper, in a neat…
