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Printable Summary is Here 6 Oct 2011 | 09:37 am
Most visitors to our site probably don't notice the small black, vertical tab titled "feedback" on the right side of the page. This humble button wields a lot of power in determining where we focus o...
title validation - how not to write a title 2 Dec 2010 | 10:58 am
We cleverly wrote our blog post title in all lowercase to highlight the fact that our PaperRater service now includes title validation. [loud clapping] What does this mean? In the past, anyone cou.....
Automated Grading has Arrived 11 Nov 2010 | 06:09 am
Automated grading of papers has been one of the most requested features and certainly the one that has had our engineers working the most hours. Consider the difficulty in attempting to grade a paper...
New: Speedy Plagiarism Checker 23 Oct 2010 | 08:02 am
Plagiarism detection has been included in the Paper Rater service from Day 1, but we recognize that some users would like to use the plagiarism checker by itself -- separate from the automated proofre...
Improved Plagiarism Detection 28 Aug 2010 | 01:48 am
We are pleased to announce that significant progress has been made on our most requested feature -- improved plagiarism detection. Our originality detection service now utilizes improved matching and...
Shorter Text Submissions 24 Aug 2010 | 11:29 am
Prior to now, Paper Rater has considered it bad policy to allow shorter documents to be processed. This is due to the fact that the tips you receive after submitting your paper are the result of stat...
Clichés 8 Jun 2010 | 11:20 am
As stated in the General Grammar Tips blog, you should avoid slang terminology in your writing. By this, I mean avoid clichés and any sayings that can have more than one meaning. It can be difficult ...
Commonly Misspelled Words 18 May 2010 | 08:33 am
There are some words that sound very similar but have very different meanings. When reading papers, I sometimes find the wrong word used in a sentence over and over again, and it is obvious that the w...
Subject/Verb Agreement 13 May 2010 | 05:59 am
An often overlooked, common mistake is that of incorrect subject and verb agreement. In order to understand how these two parts correlate, we need to know how to find them in a sentence. The subject ...
Writer's Block 1 May 2010 | 07:35 am
Understand that writing is not like mathematics. You won’t be able to sit down, figure the problem out, and move on with your day. It is a process that can take days and even weeks to complete (depend...
