Why is proofreading required? Emeritus Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Glasgow, Geoff Moore, writes in an article 1 that he did an exercise in dictation with several hundred students and that only three ever managed to take down that piece of dictation correctly. If you do a proofreading yourself with attention, you may be able to detect some of the spelling mistakes. It is always useful to get the proofreading done by another student. Even after completing such an exercise in proofreading, you may not appreciate the mistakes if you do not spend some time on the corrected manuscripts. Some of the common mistakes pointed out are the following: Only about half the people in the audience put up their hands, says Prof.Moore, when he asked: "How many of you know the difference between its and it's?” He reports that some students found that there words they had written one way all their school lives were spelled incorrectly. What does this point out? You need to take the help of competent proofreading professionals to do an English check and copy-editing job. http://www.academy-contemporary-english.org.uk/teaching_moore.html |
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