Top 5 Things to Know About Grammarly for Franklin

Franklin University students have access to a dedicated Grammarly account. Designed to support academic integrity and writing development, this free, premium account checks for:

• Grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Clarity
• Tone
• Plagiarism and AI Usage
• Sentence structure and flow

Here are the top 5 things you should know about Grammarly for Franklin.

1. How to Access

• Sign up for free by going to the Learning Commons website: https://www.franklin.edu/learning-commons and select 'Access Grammarly for Franklin' under the "I Need To" section of the left-hand menu.

2. Don’t Sign Up for a Personal Account

• Personal Grammarly accounts have AI writing features, which could lead to inadvertent or deliberate AI usage and academic misconduct issues.

3. Grammarly.com vs. MS Word Plug-in

• Both provide writing review suggestions as mentioned above.
• Grammarly.com provides a version history, allowing you to track changes and revisions made over time.
• The MS Word plug-in DOES NOT provide a version history.

4. Grammarly Authorship

• Tracks the source of text in a document, categorizing it as either human-typed, AI-generated, or copied from a website.
• Provides transparency by providing insight into how a document was created.
• Version history tracks the evolution of the text, including both AI-generated and human-edited content.
• Creates a report that can be shared with an instructor or editor to show the origin of the text.

5. Best Practices

• Save a version of your paper BEFORE you accept any Grammarly edits.
• Consider using Grammarly Authorship in the MS Word plug-in to track your writing process.

PLEASE NOTE: Turnitin does not detect and flag basic grammar changes made as AI-written. The Turnitin detector is not tuned to target Grammarly-generated spelling, grammar, and punctuation modifications to content, but rather other AI content written by Large Language Models (LLM). Our Franklin Student Grammarly accounts only allow you to use the spelling, grammar, and punctuation modifications. All LLM AI features are turned off for our Franklin Student Grammarly accounts.

If you sign up for a personal Grammarly account with a personal email, you have access to generative AI-powered features, including draft generation, paraphrasing, summarizing, and other features. Content produced using these features will likely be flagged as AI-generated by the Turnitin detector and could result in a violation of the Academic Integrity policy.