May 21, 2016 at 4:20 pm

@Rapid Blue  Thanks for this detailed research. It’s surprising to see that most of us have got only 3 stars. But then it should come as no surprise as @suny  said that with a better rating , one would prefer to work at more lucrative sites which pay you according to your time and efforts. And may be this is the reason, most of the writing sites have mediocre or average posts by the writers.

May 21, 2016 at 4:24 pm

@swalia yes, that is correct. I also needed an hour of ‘repairs’ to poof one of my blog articles to the B grade.

You get a  list, but it is no t so easy.  When you change one thing, they you have to change two more things. It is like a chain reaction.

May 22, 2016 at 1:31 am

@RapidBlue  Thanks for checking my blog and having it rated. I am actually surprised that I got a B grade on it. This is a pretty neat tool to improve your writing skills. I would love to improve mine as I am sure that not all my articles would be B’s.  Thanks for sharing.

May 22, 2016 at 2:13 am

@ruby3881 Then perhaps you can try out Textbroker UK, as you are from Canada, am I right?
I am sure it is good opportunity for you. 🙂

May 22, 2016 at 2:37 am

@kaka135 No, they only accept writers located in the US.

May 22, 2016 at 4:29 am

@ruby3881 suny and rapidblue mentioned there is another site, TextBroker for UK, and it accepts several countries including Canada.

You can check out this link and see if it works for you: https://intern.textbroker.co.uk/uk/author-signup.php

May 22, 2016 at 8:57 am

@kaka135 Thanks so much for clarifying that! I’d missed the earlier posts & hadn’t noticed the “UK” in your earlier comment.

May 22, 2016 at 9:21 am

@shaloo walia I am sure the sites paying better and keeping a strict vigil get better stuff and a writer does better efforts to keep his rating intact.

@Ruby3881 try this link. I have only modified the link  https://www(.)textbroker.co.uk/

remove ( ) and you are there.

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May 22, 2016 at 9:31 am

I used paperrater years back when I was writing for Helium.

Every single article contained 30 or more errors in grammar, sentence structure etc.

The good thing about Paperrater is that they give you suggestions, so you can just accept the suggestion, and changes will be made.

I do not know that they give an indicative selling value.

That must be new feature.

May 22, 2016 at 9:31 am

Something to keep in mind about ratings from computer software is that they are limited, just the same as translation software is. As an example, I submitted Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech to paperrater.com and he got dinged for not having enough transitional phrases, and for using “bad” phrases the software deemed to be “over-used or distasteful.” The words they cited were: “bad, make, am, happy, many, see, old, go, we, great, end, And so, some, you, like, take, well, New, so, is, are, But, was, give” – “sorted by most egregious first,” don’t you know!

An article from Forbes was given an A, despite having been cited for numerous spelling and grammar errors, lack of transitional phrases, and a lot of  “bad phrases.” Mind you, the web site explains that the rating isn’t a complete picture of your writing ability:

The grade above is NOT complete! We do not actually use a crystal ball to generate your grade. Instead, this grade takes into account spelling, grammar, word choice, style, vocabulary, and more; but it does NOT examine the meaning of your words, how your ideas are structured, or how well your arguments are supported. We should also mention that our automated grader doesn’t always get things right. So, please consider this grade to be one facet of your paper’s overall grade…

May 22, 2016 at 9:37 am

@Ruby3881 And to top it all they do not know about your knowledge of idioms and what is happening in your surrounding areas. Use of Local words make a significant difference when one use software for skill testing. An A could become B and a D could find himself in B as well.

May 22, 2016 at 9:46 am

I also wanted to add that often the very complaints that one rater will have are the things another rater favours. For example, paperrater.com is downgrading ratings based on “over-used” phrases and giving better grades when the author chooses academic vocabulary instead. But the Hemingway app cited the same text for too many difficult sentences, and gave it a readability score of grade 12 – which is “OK” but not ideal.

Rating systems that use the Flesch-Kincaid levels would put a grade 12 score as “fairly difficult.” They recommend writing for an average of 13-15 year-old reading skill at most, or a person with no better than a grade 9 reading level. So a paper with a grade 12 level would fail on that account!

May 22, 2016 at 12:55 pm

@scheng1 paper rater only gives a grade, based on those grades I estimated value of an article. That’s why I said it is an estimation, and the values I gave are based on the internet research, not this tool.

But, I would love if they could produce a tool that would actually estimate and then price tag my work, because then I would be able to take it as an official reference.

A price for 300 words A graded article would be $15 by most of the writers, doe some say that a content sold to the magazines and big internet websites is far above that value.

May 22, 2016 at 1:12 pm

@ruby3881 yes you are absolutely right, but it still doesn’t change a fact that a tool rated your article B, and many of us got a C.

Also, with the limitation of their software and the incomplete FREE version, that analyses is incomplete, but who guarantees that a human made analyses would be any better?

I do overuse phrases and I repeat some mistakes over and over again. I do not apply ‘repairs’ by any software, but manually – still my text sounds much better when I do get that B rate.

The problem is that it rates with C utterly rotten texts and those that are acceptable.

@sunil I think we need another tool, but I am not aware of one. If I try using local words, as you said, or medical terms which I by the way need even when I translate – this tool is magisterially awful and it rates an each of my text with the C. I am not annoyed by that rate, I just remove my Latin terms with the fruit names for example, and continue analyzing the rest.

With or without the inclusion of the fact that it is just a robot, I found out what parts of my writing process is not so brilliant. When I reshape those parts, my text seems to be much better than before, not just because of a tool. It sounds better to me.

I also used the hemingwayapp()com, which relies on other factors. The Hemingway suggest you to make a short, concise and easy to understand sentences putting an emphasis on readability.

This is because one thing.

Paperrater is a tool produced to evaluate academic text and essays just as @ruby3881 suggested  and hemingwayapp is apt for a more common usage.

I will combine the both and try to find a better rater as well.

Grammarly was also a good tool, but I am unaware if they have a free option and when I had it in trial a few years back it was really hard to do anything with it.

May 22, 2016 at 1:42 pm

@Rapid Blue  Thanks for another great research into the matter I agree with all of your points and would like to mention that Grammarly allows first free reviews for free but then it asks you to join/login through your email. I have never tried it beyond that because I have no intention to pay them any fee for that.