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Grammarly

LSC-Houston North students have access to a premium Grammarly subscription for free! Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform to assist you in improving your grammar and writing abilities.

Grammarly Editor

The Grammarly Editor web app allows you to create a new document or upload an existing document to edit it in Grammarly. When you're done editing, you can copy the text to your clipboard or export it in its original format.

Browser Extensions

Grammarly offers browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that integrate contextual spelling and grammar checking wherever you write on the web.

 

Grammarly Browser Extension

Grammarly's browser extension support page has links to the appropriate pages where you'll be able to download and install Grammarly to use in your browser. You'll gain a little green button to trigger Grammarly checks, but it will also check your writing in the background (no need to click).

Grammarly button in Chrome

This is especially useful if you have any classes that require you to post to D2L, or (of course) anywhere else online where you're typing out content to share.

Microsoft Office Plugin

Download the Microsoft Office Plugin to integrate Grammarly with Word and Outlook (Windows only).

Not available for Word for Mac or Word Online.

 

Grammarly's instructions for installing the app to Word on a Mac computer.

Visit the Grammarly for MS Word and Office page to download the plug-in. Run the .exe and follow the installation instructions (you might want to install only the Word add-on if you don't use Microsoft Outlook for email). You'll be prompted to log in to your Grammarly account, or you can skip this step and log in from inside Word.

After a successful install, you'll see a Grammarly button in Word to the far right!

Grammarly Button in Word

To initiate a Grammarly check, just click the button. You'll be able to see the different options available across the top of Word. You can tell Grammarly what kind of essay you're working on, and enable or disable checks for things like spelling, sentence structure, vocabulary enhancement, and even plagiarism.

Any issues that Grammarly finds will be underlined inside your document, and the suggested change will be recommended in the side panel to the right.

Grammarly in action - screenshot

 

Fixing an error in Grammarly for Word

To learn more about the grammar rule behind the suggestions, just click the the little arrow icon to expand the short lesson.

To accept the change, click on the green (to the right of the -> arrow), corrected word/phrase.

 

Desktop Apps

Download native apps for Mac or Windows to access Grammarly directly from your desktop.

iOS and Android Keyboards

Grammarly offers an app for iOS and Android devices! Grammarly Keyboard integrates seamlessly with other mobile apps and your mobile browser.

See Grammarly's instructions for installing the app on Android and iOS devices.