Hemingway Editor - How Have I Not Seen this Before?!

Maybe I'm the last English teacher in the Western Hemisphere to discover the Hemingway Editor, but in case I'm not - here's a short plug for it.  

The Hemingway Editor is a free and simple online grammar editor. First, copy and paste your writing into the main text field. The editor will highlight certain sentences or words that are awkward or hard to read. It will also assign your text a grade level based on its complexity and length. From there, you can edit text directly on the website and copy it back into wherever it originated. Keep in mind that the site will not save your text or create any record of it if you exit out of it.   

Part of this tool's blessing is also its curse: the Hemingway Editor is simple, yet limited in its abilities. It catches adverb use, use of passive voice, awkward phrases, and run-on sentences. It does not catch punctuation errors, incomplete sentences, and other grammatical errors. It also does not teach about why it has highlighted certain parts of text, nor does it offer suggestions about how to improve particular parts of writing. That being said, I have found that this site is a quick tool to help me analyze my own writing. 

Using the Hemingway Editor yourself or with your students? Let me know!

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