A Comparative Analysis of Factors Affecting the Selection of English Grammar Checkers with FUCOM and BWM

Online grammar checkers are interactive online software that offers authors suggestions to replace incorrect sentences with grammatically correct ones, repetitive words with alternative synonyms, and misspelled words with correct ones. Besides providing grammar checks to their users, also offer various services such as a dictionary, contextual guidance, similarity check, word/sentence suggestions, and punctuation correction. In addition to the basic services offered, users can also consider different criteria such as user-friendliness of grammar checkers, ease of installation, integration into different applications, customer service, reporting, and price, while choosing the most suitable software tool for their intended use. This study aims to determine and evaluate the factors that affect the selection of English grammar checkers. The prominent factors were evaluated by the users as an expert opinion and prioritized within themselves. In this evaluation stage, the results obtained were presented comparatively by applying the multi-criteria decision-making methods FUCOM and BWM.