Digital Literacy Student Guide: Grammarly

Grammarly cleans up your writing by finding grammatical mistakes, spelling errors, and typos, but it does more than provide an online grammar check. With a Grammarly Premium account, you can access all grammar-checker feedback for your writing and get advanced suggestions that help you improve your writing skills over time. 

Grammarly’s product offerings offer writing suggestions wherever you write. Our suggestions are split into four categories: correctness (indicated with a red underline), clarity (blue), engagement (purple), and delivery (green).

Note: You can use Grammarly to check for plagiarism, but Turnitin is still Avondale’s official text-matching software.

To sign up to your free premium Grammarly account:

1. Go to https://www.grammarly.com/enterprise/signup
2. Provide your name, your Avondale email address, and a password of your choosing.
3. Check your inbox for the email and click on the activation link.

Once you have your account activated, you can log in and:

• Access the Grammarly Editor at https://app.grammarly.com.
• Under Profile, choose Australian English, and add words to your personal dictionary.
• Turn on or off AI-assisted writing features. 
• Create snippets (shortcuts) that are reusable phrases, sentences, and even whole paragraphs that you can quickly insert into your text to save you time when you use Grammarly for Windows or Grammarly for Mac.
• Check out the Grammarly Apps - install one of these or use the online Grammarly editor.
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