Grading essays and research papers can be the most trying part of any writing instructor's job. Fitting corrections, suggestions, and notes between double-spaced lines of text and into margins often creates a legibility problem, which only worsens when grading stacks of papers to meet deadlines. This essay describes electronic grading, a method that can ease the burden of grading for writing instructors, simplify checking online sources, and help prevent plagiaristic recycling of student work.