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Yes. Exactly. Before I figured out how to game the program, my son and wife were editing shorter. That’s what the instructions said to do. And, that’s also a major strategy for decent writing: brainstorm a lot, then edit down to the good parts. What this means is the software’s scoring is an anti-incentive to good writing. Used as a teaching aid, it’s actually doing pure damage, not good. Not only can it not score reliably, nor provide meaningful feedback, it’s actually actively teaching a very wrong way to write. But it is cheaper than humans, and it does give immediate feedback, so there’s that.



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