- Grammarly has debuted a collection of specialized AI tools to help students
- AI agents can simulate classification, find quotes and predict reader reactions
- The tools are part of the new Grammarly Docs Platform
Grammarly is looking to take a more active role in helping students write with a new set of AI agents that go far beyond simply making sure you use semicolons correctly. The company has released a set of eight AI agents built for specific writing support and embedded them directly in a new writing platform called Docs (not Google Kind).
The new features combine AI skills with quieter digital help. You don’t have to write a prompt asking for specific help, just press the right tool, and Grammarly’s AI will help find sources, predict how a professor will respond to your word play, and make sure you don’t sound like an AI yourself (RIP EM-DASH).
Grammarly has increased its services with AI for a while, including rewriting tools and an AI -Chatbot last year. The new agents go beyond the reactive approach by using the context of your writing and the reason why you write it to offer advice without having to explain it explicitly.
Grammarly throws the new tools to both students and professionals, but academic demand seems particularly serious. Students are currently torn between doing what it takes to succeed academically and compromise on this success with unethical AI use that is bypassing actual learning.
Grammar light efforts are that students who do not want to cheat themselves with AI can use these tools to help them learn, not to do it for them. They could use the AI class for feedback that mimics a real instructor’s assessment using course-specific materials and details of what the teacher is looking for. The citation finds the agent can control your sources and help you find better, format them properly. Plus, the expert review agent can offer domain -specific feedback on writing in fields such as law and medicine, measuring arguments against professional standards.
And if you may unintentionally chop too close to a source, the plagiarism control will help mark accidental copying done when you are upwards. And the AI detector checks to make sure your fatigue has not made your writing work masked.
To learn for a world of AI
The tools can help students succeed in the long term, according to Grammarly, by teaching them to research and write well without compromising ethics, even though AI tools and shortcuts are everywhere.
According to the company’s internal research, only 18% of college students feel “very prepared” to use AI professionally after graduation, despite the demand for AI reading skills among employers. Grammarly wants to become a training ground for these skills without undermining academic integrity along the way. You can access all these tools in Grammar lights new DOCS platform, both as a free and paid subscriber.
Of course, Grammarly is not the only player chasing this idea. Microsoft Copilot in Word offers some similar features like Grammarly, just like Google’s Gemini AI in Google Docs. But Grammar light approach is both more extensive and streamlined because of its focus on avoiding getting an AI to write everything for the user. This is what can get this update to adhere.
Because while Grammarly could have just been another AI writing tool, it got its AI support to take a step back. As imperfect as all AI tools are, at least this approach tries to tackle the very real crisis of people who have no idea how to use AI -writing helpers ethically if they even want to.
