Ginger

A great way to start writing practice

Kommentare: Well, it is an outstanding tool, but only at some point of English learning. But for ESL/EFL Intermediate and Pre-Intermediate students it can become a powerful, motivating, encouraging and educative tool which will increase their passion for perfection. It helps as well to understand that all the mistakes, errors, typos, slips of tongue and slips of finger, blunders, gaffes and bloopers are valuable and any human being must learn from them and keep moving forward.

Vorteile:

The software is based on Natural Language Processing and is probably derived from Generative Grammar by Noam Chomsky. This software is a powerful tool for those who have just started to learn English writing. It can be a great helping hand which will teach you how to paraphrase and what's more, it will demonstrate you the incorrect spelling. It will give you hints on adequate word meanings, can translate your wordings in more than 50 different languages. It is capable to read your texts out loud, can train you and motivate you. You will be able to easily use the program wherever you like: there are versions of Ginger for Desktop, Chrome, Safari, iOS or Android and even Microsoft Office. It can be your proofreader, coach and motivator. Such a great step for your writing progress. It is a great tool for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate ESL/EFL Students.

Nachteile:

I am not sure that there are versions for Linux (Ubuntu/Debian users).

Works Well

Kommentare: While the tool works well and improves my grammar by providing re-phrased sentence it doesn't always catch the punctuation.

Vorteile:

Works well and give you some good suggestions on how to improve grammar.

Nachteile:

Chrome extension causes delays in the text appearing when typing. The desk top app pop-up a lot. Doesn't always play nicely with other tools.

Adding spice to copywriting

Vorteile:

Ginger is a good, cost effective grammar software add on that works with both Widows and Mac. It integrates into a number of programs and is also available for iPad. As a native U.K. English speaker it offers that as a spell check and grammar as well as US English

Nachteile:

The pop up can be intrusive in some web apps. In particular it has caused issues in Miro, browser based, when trying to add text

Watch out for automatic billing

Kommentare: Automatic Billing, Poor Customer Service, No response to emails.

Vorteile:

I was using another software, but it was more expensive. I decided to use this.

Nachteile:

The desk top app pop-up a lot. It was very annoying, so I stopped using it. Poor interface, Automatic Billing, No notification before cancelling, poor customer service.

I Used Ginger on Daily Basis

Vorteile:

One of the best and my first ever used software is ginger that helps me to proofread the day-to-day mails and much more. It is like a backbone of me while writing.

Nachteile:

Sometimes, I see ginger suggest unnecessary punctuation that is not required. I think the team needs to do more work on NLP.