Review of Everwrite

Since this is an age of technology, we can use it to learn a language. Everwrite is such a software through which we can improve our writing skill by practicing many writing exercises. It is developed by VPG integrated media. It is designed in such a way that learners can easily explore and understand the learning strategy. It has six categories and each category has some sections. Those sections have some practice sessions through which learners can practice each and every different sector of writing skills. They can work on grammar, spelling, translation and paragraph writing through this soft ware. Now I am going discuss in detail about this software and it works.

Among the six categories first one is Editing Exercises in which learners will find various grammatical exercises. In this category they can practice exercises and can give test to evaluate themselves. They can also edit grammatical error and learn how to re-order sentence in an organized way through this section. They will find the correct answers by clicking on show answer button.

Second category is Identifying Rhetorical Paragraphs. In this section learners will find different paragraphs and their task is to read those paragraphs and find out the main methods which are used in organizing and developing in each paragraph from the given options. After choosing the answer they will get correct and incorrect answer. If the answer is correct, it is explained with the reason why it is correct.

Working with transitions is the third category of this Language learning software. Here in each practice session learner will get different paragraph from which they have to find out the transitions. They will get marks by clicking the correct answer.

Next category is organizing your thought in which Learners will find some disorganized paragraphs along with four options of numbers of sentences. They will have to choose the correct option of those numbers of sentences to make the paragraph organized. By clicking on any option they will get correct or incorrect answer.

The fifth category is Recognizing your thesis statement in which students have to find out the thesis statement from the list of scrambled sentences after reading those paragraphs and by clicking on any option they will get correct or incorrect answer with explanation.

Last one is Practice grammar where learners have to practice grammatical exercises again and choose the correct action.

Now I am going to critically evaluate this software on basis of some points:

Learner motivation and interest: This software motivates the learners by designing different types of exercises. Since it is an era of technology so today’s learner are habituated to use technology that’s why they will find it motivating and interesting to practice writing skill which is totally different from the traditional teaching method of writing. Apart from this when learners get the reason of the correct answer they will be more interested to try other exercises and make them correct.

User friendliness: This site is very much user friendly. Students can easily enter into this by writing their name only. There is no need for extra registration and the most important thing is each and every instruction is very clearly given here so that students will not find any difficulties to explore it. When the learners start doing the exercises they will get the instruction at the top of the page which make them to understand clearly what they have to do.

Interaction: Through using this software teacher student interaction will be increased because teachers have to give the instruction to the students and if the students face any difficulties they will ask their teacher. This is how their interaction may grow.

So after having this description ever write is undoubtedly an useful software for improving writing skill. But apart from this strengthens I found a weakness that is students might get bored by practicing same exercises again and again.