If students en masse merely ran their shitty essays through spell and grammar check, the quality of even college-level essays would be improved by a huge margin

If students en masse merely ran their shitty essays through spell and grammar check, the quality of even college-level essays would be improved by a huge margin. For 99% of the high school students I've worked with, their essays would be better if they had to pass Microsoft's spelling and grammar checks before they were submitted. The exceptions were all exceptional enough that they knew that they no longer needed to listen to those automated filters.