What I noticed about Grammarly is that the edits are made in different categories such as correctness or clarity, which can be helpful if I want to focus on a certain area. I find that I have trouble with clarity sometimes, so the categories could help in that respect. Also, this could be because I’m not using Grammarly premium, but I can’t really select something that’s underlined and see what they’re suggesting, only how well I’m doing in particular areas overall. On the other hand, Hemingway seems a bit more user-friendly and has more specified edits, such as having too many adverbs, which I honestly never thought about much, but I actually do have too many adverbs sometimes. Additionally, it seems that all of my sentences are “very hard to read,” which might be true, but I think that’s just my writing style, or because my paper has a more advanced audience than the editor thinks. So these specific edits can actually be helpful to me because Hemingway points things out that I probably wouldn’t pick up on if I was proofreading my paper by myself.

About the video, I think I can relate to the overall message to some degree. I have found myself having similar thoughts when it comes to the outward appearance of a house or neighborhood. However, I also found my way to the same realization as in the video. We don’t see the daily struggles people go through just based on how a home looks. There is a lot of sacrifice and hard work going on behind the scenes. It’s easy to criticize people until you walk in their shoes.