Paper Rater Analysis and Thoughts

            PaperRater.com is a tool that can be used to analyze word documents copied and pasted directly into the textbox on the site. The website checks papers for spelling and grammar errors, as well as word choice, style, and vocabulary use. Furthermore, it automatically checks the paper for evidence of plagiarism. If desired, the user could print a copy of the paper’s analysis and see a score for each area evaluated and a final grade based on the writing alone. It does not however evaluate the paper for specific content.

 

I found PaperRater.com to be very beneficial for my own writing and saw its potential for easier grading of papers for high school teachers or college professors. I pasted a sample document (Article Review 1) provided in my course’s BlackBoard page into the PaperRater text box and titled it article review. The analysis revealed 4 spelling errors, 2 grammar errors, and an overall grade of 77%. Then, I pasted an old discussion/blog post that I wrote myself into the text box and had the website analyze that sample. I found 0 spelling errors and technically 0 grammar errors, however, the analysis of the website made an error itself because it noted that I had not put an apostrophe in the word: didn’t, but I clearly did when I reviewed the text that I pasted originally. That was the only flaw I could see besides my grade of a 75%. I was surprised to see my score compared to the sample article review since the sample posted in BlackBoard bad several errors.  Overall, however, I found the PaperRater website to be helpful and will continue to use it in future work.