Quick Overview
Scribbr provides a more targeted proofreading and editing services primarily for academic and ESL documents. Still, they mostly provides grammar, spelling, and punctuation corrections and that’s all. Therefore, it certainly lacks structural, tone, clarity, citation, and formatting edits. Despite these limitations, Scribbr offers a bunch of extra features, such as plagiarism check, and AI-powered tools like clarity checks and citation editing. For those specifically seeking basic proofreading or dealing with ESL documents, Scribbr could be a service worth considering, although its overall effectiveness and value might be limited by the scope of its offerings.
Scribbr: Editing Quality – 23/50 ⭐️⭐️
So, Scribbr finished checking our work in 2 days. That’s good. But Their “editing” only apparently includes grammar, punctuation, and spelling correction. They did improve the formatting (only the paragraphs and first page to be precise), but the conversation we had with them about working with references was just ridiculous. They did want us to buy reference editing saparetly but then didn’t want to correctly format those refrences in APA and said we had to sent them references already formatted in APA… Huh?? Anyways, they did work on our paper and gave a few valuable suggestions, but overally, for the price we paid – we don’t think it was worth it.
| 💼 SERVICE PACKAGE | 🏁 EDITING QUALITY | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Grammar & spelling | ✅ | Grammar corrected | ✅ |
| Structure | ❌ | Corrected citations | ❌ |
| Tone of voice | ❌ | Corrected formatting | ⚠️ |
| Citation editing | ❌ | Corrected structure | ❌ |
| Formatting editing | ❌ | Fact checking | ⚠️ |
| AI & plagchecking | Plagcheck | Paper improved | Not much |
Scribbr: Value for Money – 17/30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scribbr offers to profread and edit all the diffrent types of documets, but mostly focuses on research papers and college assignments (like thesises, essays, etc.). It can also work with a couple of languages besides English such as Spanish, German, and French. There’s not a whole lot of orther types of assistance but you can separately find clarity check, citation and formatting editing on the platform as well. There’s an AI proofreader on the website too. Checking your work may be a bit pricey here though, as we paid for our 1000-word work $60. Thus, Scribbr is not that of a budget-frienly option.
Scribbr: Overall Experience – 14/20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scribbr’s platform is easy to navigate and work with. However, the process of creating a profile is tedious (why did we have to answer all those quastioneer questions anyways?). Luckily, there’s a working support system which you can refre to (including a live chat) if you face any problems. However, if your problem is not being able to speak to the editor, than you can’t really do anything with it. Because we also couldn’t get a hold of our dedicated professional at all. So we guess that’s just how it woks on Scribbr.
Conclusion
In thend, we would call Scribbr to be more of a niche option for academic and ESL proofreading needs, distinguished by its plagiarism checking and language-specific services. And yes, it excels in certain (more basics) areas. However, the limited scope of its editing capabilities, particularly in structure, tone, and formatting, along with a exhausting registration process and payment issues, make it less appealing for a broader audience seeking thorough editing solutions.
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