Write your paper here, then Improve, Grade, Rubric-check, and Cite, all on the text in front of you.
Just start typing and the canvas suggests your next line in your voice as you write — press Tab to accept. It also checks your draft for AI, fixes the grammar, and rewrites weak parts in your voice, all right here in the document.
Rewrites stiff or AI-sounding text so it reads naturally, in your voice. Select text first to improve just that part.
Editing and proofreading are different jobs, and doing them in the wrong order wastes work. Editing is structural: whether the argument holds, whether each paragraph earns its place, whether the question was actually answered. Proofreading, the comma and typo pass, comes last, because there is no sense polishing a paragraph you are about to cut.
Improving the wording, grading the draft, checking it against the rubric and adding citations all act on the same text in front of you. Copying a paragraph out to another tool and pasting it back is where students lose track of which version is the current one.
Select the paragraph that is not working and improve only that, leaving everything else untouched. A whole-document rewrite is how a draft loses the sentences you were happiest with.
Paste the marking criteria and see which requirements your draft covers and which it only gestures at. It is reading the rubric you pasted, not your marker's mind, so use it to catch the requirement you forgot rather than as a score. That forgotten requirement is an easy way to lose marks on an otherwise good essay.
Add a source and you get both the in-text citation and the full reference entry, one dropped in at your cursor and the other appended under a References heading, so the two do not drift apart while you keep writing. It works from the details you paste, so check the author, year and title against the source before you submit.
Editing changes substance: structure, argument, paragraph order, whether a section belongs at all. Proofreading is the final surface pass for spelling, punctuation and typos. Do them in that order, or you will spend your time perfecting text you end up deleting.
Leave it overnight if the deadline allows, then read it aloud, because your ear catches sentences your eye skims after several rereads. Check the draft against the question and the rubric before you touch individual sentences, since a missing requirement costs more than an awkward phrase.
It gives you an estimated grade and specific fixes, which is genuinely useful for finding the weak section before your marker does. It is not your real mark and it can be wrong: it does not know your marker, your course, or how that department weighs things, so treat it as a second reader with an opinion rather than a verdict.
Yes, you can write and edit here for free. A free account saves your work across devices and comes with higher daily limits.