Two issues that students care deeply about are freedom and money.\u00c2\u00a0 They want to be independent and they want to buy more stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 One issue that’s usually low on their priority list is proofreading.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a little way to use the first two issues to make the third issue more of a priority.<\/p>\n
I came across a website the other day called Gramlee<\/a>, which charges money to proofread documents.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll proofread anything, for about 5 cents a word.\u00c2\u00a0 You can send them an email, a research paper, whatever, and their proofreaders will correct it and get it back to you.\u00c2\u00a0 Gottabewrite<\/a> is another similar service.<\/p>\n You can use these websites to talk to your students about independence and money.\u00c2\u00a0 If students learn how to write well, they should have no need to pay anyone to proofread their writing.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, if they learn to write well enough, they can get people to pay them to proofread.\u00c2\u00a0 Writing well puts them in the driver’s seat, rather than being stuck in the back getting car sick.<\/p>\n Paying people to proofread your papers is like paying someone cook your food: it’s a luxury most people can’t afford.\u00c2\u00a0 And even if you can afford it, you still have to depend on someone else.\u00c2\u00a0 What if the cook gets sick?\u00c2\u00a0 What if he or she poisons the pot roast?<\/p>\n No, thank you, I’d rather do it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two issues that students care deeply about are freedom and money.\u00c2\u00a0 They want to be independent and they want to buy more stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 One issue that’s usually low on their priority list is proofreading.\u00c2\u00a0...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[241,240,239],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-gottabewrite","tag-gramlee","tag-proofreading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-25","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}