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lil  ·  3599 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 1, 2015

Looking up words on the on-line dictionaries mostly give you the word you are looking up. The spelling mistakes are all compound words, hyphenated words, homonyms and words that spelling checkers mostly don't catch -- I know these are improving. As you say, dictionaries give a whole lot more.

They have to write well because they are all doing research proposals that will give each of them $15K for their internships. That doubles what they would get otherwise. Their proposals are turned down if they are badly written, so cash motivates.