BAJANDE, Joan J.

ABELS 4-2
[ENGL40073] Instructional Materials Development and Evaluation

Lesson 14: Materials for developing writing skills

Assessment Activity

Directions: Choose your top three (3) most used websites, applications or extensions that you
use for writing. Identify their respective advantages and disadvantages, as well as the
improvements that ysou wish to see or happen to them in the future (if any). Flesh out your
answers by using the table below. You must also provide a short description of the sites that
you have chosen in the first column. Additionally, you can elaborate on the possible
improvements of the sites in the third column.

Chosen website, Pros Cons

application, or extension

Microsoft Word - Microsoft
Word is a word processing
software developed by
Microsoft.I use this for
basically writing anything that
I need to submit in school or
at work.
It has built-in intelligent It can only detect English
features. You can create text language and outlines other
documents, edit and format languages as incorrect. I
existing documents, can also hope microsoft can make it
add images to make more diverse and detect
graphical documents. It can other languages and suggest
also detect grammatical other languages not only the
errors and suggest words as English language. Also it
you type along. tends to correct languages
though they are correct, into
a word in the English
language.

Grammarly- It is very simple to use and It is only available online and

supports streamlined and
effective writing, and has the
ability to check plagiarism in
real-time and detect even the
slightest use of other people's
work. I use this to proofread
my written works and to
correct the grammar,
punctuation, basically
mistakes that I’ve made.
you can customize it as well.
It is also highly accurate, and
is trusted by many writers,
companies, and students.
does not provide offline
editing option, which I hope
they would add that feature
for easy access. Also the
premium version is very
costly but sometimes the
features there are not all
needed,, which I hope they
would make it a bit cheaper
or add another version or
customizable version.

Google Docs - is a very easy
to use and powerful online
collaborating tool which
makes it more convenient for
team members to work on a
It is very easy to use and
accessible through any
devices, and can be shared
as well to your colleagues so
they, too, can check your
When it is converted into
word document, the
document just go into places,
and gets shambled. I hope
that Google would be able to
shared document. I use this
for online submission or for
documents that needs to be
edited by my co-workers or
classmates.
work. It also saves improve it, to avoid too much
automatically so you won’t be editing when it gets converted
worried that the document into a word document.
might be deleted when your
device restarts. Also, it is free
of charge which makes it very
user-friendly.