Grammar check | Essay checker | Writing checker
- ConverSolo is FREE for all VWT members
by Nicholas Walker , August 26, 2024
Our team has been busy! We’ve been working on a new AI-powered platform that helps language learners get interactive speaking and writing practice. If you have a free or paid membership on VirtualWritingTutor.com, you can enjoy instant access to our units of study on ConverSolo.app. Try it today! This video explains how. Login to VirtualWritingTutor.com
- Virtual Writing Tutor Membership Plan Options
by Robert Kramberger , January 11, 2024
Virtual Writing Tutor has 3 levels of membership. Members can check 3000 words at a time, save text and feedback, translate feedback into 70 languages, create hypertext narratives and essay outlines, send PDFs with voice recordings, track errors, play error correction games, post essays to forums for additional feedback, with more features on their way.
- Automated Essay Scoring Moodle Plugin
by Nicholas Walker , August 1, 2023
Automatically score essays using the Virtual Writing Tutor and Moodle. Download the plugins here.
- 30 conversation questions to ask a traveler or a voice-enabled chatbot
by Nicholas Walker , July 23, 2023
You know someone who has just returned from a trip. You want to have a conversation with them, but you worry that you won’t be able to sustain the conversation. What you need are conversation questions! Here is a list of conversation questions to ask a returning traveler after their trip abroad. Practice asking these
- Improve Writing
by Nicholas Walker , January 1, 2023
We have added a new feature to VirtualWritingTutor.com. The system can now rephrase your writing into standard English.
- What’s my English level?
by Nicholas Walker , October 22, 2022
If you want to know your English proficiency level, look no further. The VirtualWritingTutor.com can help with the “Check Level” button on the first page of the VWT. We all know what people mean by English level, right? It’s your level of skill communicating in English. Often teachers want to know a student’s level to
Automatically Scored Emails
by Nicholas Walker , January 8, 2022
Emails follow a predictable pattern, with a salutation, a paragraph explaining the email’s purpose, the main content of the email, a call to action, a paragraph indicating that a reply is expected, a close, and finally a signature.
Gain Confidence during Oral Exams with this Pronunciation Checker
by Nicholas Walker , August 4, 2021
Many students are worried about their pronunciation accuracy and go into their oral exams woefully unprepared. The little preparation they do leaves them feeling very worried about their current ability or overconfident. In either case, the student does not perform at his or her best. If teachers could provide students with individual coaching before a
Chatbot Dialogue Creator for Oral Practice
by Nicholas Walker , July 16, 2021
Visit the Virtual Writing Tutor to create a free oral chatbot dialogue that you can publish anywhere online. Use the chatbot to practice your English second language speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. This is a great activity to add a speaking practice component to a pen pal exchange project or to prepare
10 Reasons VWT Is The Best Grammar Checker For Students
by Argentina Botezatu , January 8, 2021
What is the best grammar checker for students? Virtual Writing Tutor. But, anyone can say such big words about themselves and be mediocre, or even worse. So, let me change your mind. VWT was created for students like you. To meet your needs. And to relive the pain of writing errors in your academic life.
Free Chatbot Creator
by Nicholas Walker , December 4, 2020
If you are like me, when things get repetitive you start to think, “This is tedious. I need a robot to do this for me.” Am I right? This semester, my students have been sending me about 50 emails a week and hundreds of text messages. I don’t keep office hours. I just answer student
Automated Essay Scoring Explained
by Nicholas Walker , August 7, 2020
Get your essay score here An argument essay has 5 paragraphs: an introduction, two supporting arguments, a counterargument, and a conclusion, plus a works cited section. An opinion essay has 3 or more paragraphs: an introduction, one or more paragraphs with supporting arguments, and a conclusion, but no works cited section IELTS essays involve letter
Listicle Writing Tutor
by Nicholas Walker , July 16, 2020
A listicle is a list article. It usually consists of an introduction, three or more list items, and a conclusion. People like to read listicles because they are easy to read. The introduction orients the reader to the listicle’s purpose and author’s credibility. The list items are usually arranged in the order of priority, form
Automated Essay Evaluation for Innovative Teachers and A+ Students
Get your essay scored and corrected automatically with this essay checker. It can score 4 types of essays: opinion, argument, film analysis, and literary.
How to create a career-summary chatbot
by Nicholas Walker , July 11, 2020
A great writing project for ESL students to try in 2020 is to create a speech recognition enabled chabot about a career that interests them. See this example of an interactive career-related chatbot. Students will love it! Students can create their chatbot online and then export it to a blog or a Learning Management System
5 Persuasive Essay Writing Tools
by Nicholas Walker , January 18, 2020
Writing a persuasive essay is a complex task. Because the goal of a persuasive essay is to present one side of a tightly organized argument with supporting arguments and evidence, there are a number of skills you will need to write a good one. Sometimes called an opinion essay, the persuasive essay is widely used
How can I automatically evaluate opinion essays?
by Nicholas Walker , January 13, 2020
Do you teach opinion essays? Many teachers do. It is a common practice in English Second Language teaching to ask college level students to write a 4-5 paragraph opinion essay on a range of topics. An opinion essay goes by many names. Often, it is called the hamburger essay, the 1-3-1 essay, the persuasive essay,
Is my cover letter correct?
by Nicholas Walker , January 7, 2020
Let me help you write a better cover letter. I won’t give you a lengthy list of dos and don’t. Just submit the letter you have written and I will tell you how to improve it. If you teach cover letter writing, download a cover letter writing lesson that you can give to your students.
How should I use the Virtual Writing Tutor in 2020?
by Nicholas Walker , January 1, 2020
Here is how you can use the Virtual Writing Tutor in 2020.
How can I make an online glossary?
by Nicholas Walker , December 26, 2019
Learn how to make glossaries with terms, definitions, translations, parts of speech, images, and MP3 pronunciation models.
6 Essay rating tools on the Virtual Writing Tutor
by Nicholas Walker , December 6, 2019
Many teachers would like to give better, more detailed feedback to students on their writing assignments but realize that there are not enough hours in the day to do so. With the arrival of artificial intelligence, faster feedback on essay writing tasks is now possible. The Virtual Writing Tutor offers six types of automated writing
How do students react to automated film-analysis essay evaluation?
by Nicholas Walker , December 1, 2019
Recently, I reported on the perils and promise of a project I have been working on with Dr. Frank Bonkowski. We created an automated film-analysis essay evaluation system to provide the correction and formative scoring of essays to his advanced English Second Language learners at CEGEP de St-Laurent, in Montreal, Canada. The idea was to
How can I evaluate an argument essay in 2 seconds?
by Nicholas Walker , November 20, 2019
Many college teachers assign either opinion essays or argument essays to their English Second Language students. These highly structured writing assignments give students practice organizing their ideas and defending a point of view. The goal is to prepare students to go on and write research reports or graduate theses at university. However, when it comes
Can I evaluate a film-analysis essay automatically?
by Nicholas Walker , October 11, 2019
This article discusses automatically scoring film analysis essays. Here are links to other automated evaluations on the Virtual Writing Tutor. Pen pal exchange project IELTS practice tests Argument essay evaluation system Lately, I have been developing automatic essay evaluations for IELTS and now for college-level academic writing. I sent an email to colleagues in my
What are the new features on the Virtual Writing Tutor?
by Nicholas Walker , August 9, 2019
Hooray! The BRAND NEW version of the (now) award-winning Virtual Writing Tutor is finally here. It has taken almost a year to add new features and update the code, but it is finally ready. It is a whole lot faster, and there are some very cool new features, too. So, what’s new? Self-scoring IELTS Academic
Feedback and Links Page
by Nicholas Walker , May 21, 2019
Check your feedback and links on the feedback page. Start by clicking on the feedback link on the navigation menu at the top right, under the share icons. Feedback Tab This tab shows the latest text you submitted to the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker. Each text is dated. The Virtual Writing Tutor keeps your
Translate Grammar Checker Feedback to one of 70 Languages
by Nicholas Walker , May 17, 2019
When you create a member’s account on the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker website, you can get feedback translated to your native language with the click of a button. We use Google’s translation API to translate feedback to any one of the 70 languages currently available. Membership is 100% free, and we don’t send spam.
Your Friendly Robotic Grammar Checker
by Nicholas Walker , April 17, 2019
We are in the process of updating the Virtual Writing Tutor.com, so now is our opportunity to make the VWT faster, more powerful, and a little friendlier. In order to make the VWT a little friendlier, I have been working with a designer to create a friendly little robot to accompany the feedback you receive
Essay Checker
by Nicholas Walker , March 23, 2019
Imagine a website that could help students write better essays with automated feedback. Now imagine the same website but with additional commenting tools to help people record audio comments and rate each other’s essays using IELTS and TOEFL rubrics and comments. There you have it: an essay checker for the Virtual Writing Tutor. For a
Silent Letters: Pronunciation Made Easy
by Nicholas Walker , November 6, 2018
English is semi-phonetic, which means that the way a word is spelled can give clues to its pronunciation but can also be quite misleading. Often, the pronunciation of a word can be very different to what you might predict based on its spelling. One way English is semi-phonetic is the use of silent letters. Silent
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