Comments on: 6 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Writing

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:43:22 +0000

true

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:43:11 +0000

thanks

By: Mark Walusimbi

Mark Walusimbi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:12:49 +0000

This is a wonderful post. My advise is not to count on MS Word spell checker or any software. Just get someone else to look at your work.

By: Theresa Alleman

Theresa Alleman — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:10:39 +0000

Terrific post! Getting an outside set of eyes or a Professional grammar editor to proofread ones resume is the surest way to get all the misspelled words and awkward phrases corrected.

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Words on a page » A few links for the end of the week — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:02:05 +0000

[...] Anne Wayman offers some good tips about proofreading your own writing [...]

By: admin

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:36:07 +0000

Spike, if you’ve got a partner who is good at this count yourself extra lucky.
Jay, I looked at autocrit – http://www.autocrit.com/ free to try and could be very helpful
Autumn, changing things helps
Lesley, I always like tips about mental shifts

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:42:07 +0000

Here's one more tip: when proofreading, assume there are mistakes and pretend that your "job" is to find as many as possible. This little mental shift makes a big difference. Lesley’s last blog post..Piano lessons, life lessons - Part 2

By: Autumn

Autumn — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:46:29 +0000

One of my jobs requires me to write in a template online. No matter how often I look over the writing in the template, I never seem to catch any mistakes until I read it in the "preview" mode. The preview window simply changes the font and gets rid of the lines between paragraphs, but somehow any spelling/grammar errors are much more obvious in that mode, so I've learned never to skip it. Autumn’s last blog post..5 Beneficial Writing Habits

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:38:38 +0000

My editing secret is the AutoCrit Editing Wizard. It finds TONS of things that my eye misses.

By: SpikeTheLobster

SpikeTheLobster — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:55:33 +0000

All of those tips are great: editing aloud catches so many mistakes! You asked what tips we use... well, I have one that is particular to my situation: I ask my partner to read important work. Nothing special about that, right? Wrong! She's French, so even the tiniest little weirdness or bad sentence LEAPS out at her and grabs her by the throat. The only down-side is all the rewriting it means I have to do... d'oh! SpikeTheLobster’s last blog post..The Word Philes 7