Tag: grammarly

Fooling the detector: Using Grammarly’s AI Detector

~ CWCA/ACCR

Vol. 6, No. 3 Fall 2024

Brian Hotson, Editor, CWCA/RCCR

As I’ve written before here, writing support tools can be both helpful and harmful, just and unjust (See, Friends don’t let friends Studiosity (without reading the fine print) and Academic writing has completely changed: Turnitin forges ahead). Grammarly, a $13 billion USD company (2021), launched an AI detection tool in 2024, which comes bundled in with a Grammarly Premium subscription. Many universities and colleges offer Grammarly Premium without charge and promote the tool to students, faculty, and administrators. AI tools embedded into these writing support tools have changed the formulation of how these tools function. But, do they work as advertised? Continue reading “Fooling the detector: Using Grammarly’s AI Detector” →

Friends don’t let friends Studiosity (without reading the fine print)

A surveillance on the ledge of a building with a cloudy sky in the background.
~ CWCA/ACCR

Vol. 4 No. 1 (Fall 2022)

Brian Hotson, CWCR/RCCR Editor
Stevie Bell, CWCR/RCCR Associate Editor

Like many teachers on a late-August vacation, education companies can see September on the horizon. The difference is that these companies aren’t relaxing. They’re sending e-mails and booking video conferences with offers of freshly printed textbooks, handy workbooks, new online tools, and easy-to-use mobile apps that promise to make student life easier and save universities and colleges money.

The business of education is very large, with total global spending estimated at $4.7 trillion (USD) (UNESCO). By comparison, the total GDP of all African nations in 2021 was $2.7 trillion (USD) (StatisticsTimes, 2021). In 2018-2019, “public and private expenditure on [postsecondary] education” in Canada was $41.5 billion. Education companies would like a share of the money. In this context, a new-to-Canada online writing and tutoring tool, Studiosity, has appeared. Continue reading “Friends don’t let friends Studiosity (without reading the fine print)” →