Why Proofread Is Important

One thing that has not improved by being in this class is my ability to proof-read and my spelling. I have never been good at noticing any spelling mistakes, only pieces in writing that does not flow or make sense. I have even noticed in my peer’s papers that I have reviewed that there are words that are misspelled and the professor has marked, and I wondered how I have missed them. That

Ballenger an accurate statement when he said that “Most of us have lurking in our past some high priest of good grammar whose angry scribbling occupied the margins of our paper.” Most teachers overlooked what we had written and just looked for grammatical errors. This always made me feel like my writing was never good enough. This discouraged when it came to writing papers because I always felt like I was just writing to have my essay covered in errors that I needed to fix. After getting so many red markings on my essays I always questioned my writing. In my head I could not figure out what I was doing wrong and I did not know how to fix my writing. It became really stressful to write essays and I always dreaded when

3. After writing your draft, find a partner to correct your paper. Make sure when you are correcting your partner’s paper that you look for grammatical errors, digits of pi used correctly, and their ideas make sense.

I looked for grammar to start out with which took a little while because I had to check the punctuations and commas and see if they were placed right. Then I checked to see if all the words were spelled right and see if I was missing any words that would make a sentence better within a paragraph. After all of this was done then I went back to see if there were any quotes that needed quotation marks and I even attempted to paraphrase every now and then. That is how I went about revising both my research paper and my analysis

In the video “The The Impotence of Proofreading” by Taylor Mali the purpose of the video was to give techniques to help students in the process of proofreading a paper. Also, it talked about the most common mistakes people make when proofreading a paper for example, just checking the grammar in the computer causes to do not catch all errors included in the paper. A better option to check all errors is to print the paper and make the corrections with a red pen which will be easier for the student to go back and make those changes in the computer.

The first strategy I use is reading aloud to myself. After staring at a computer screen, I print out my essay and grab a highlighter and pen. I read the essay out loud and make corrections and highlight areas that need to be edited. This helps me to find awkward wording as well as find grammar and spelling errors I may have done. Just by simply rereading my essay, I can catch majority of my grammar and spelling errors. Too often I get into a flow of writing down content that I do not pay attention to grammar/ spelling errors. It can be time consuming because I tend to stumble on word. I am also partially blind. It made sound strange, but this can cause me to miss the “s” needed for subject verb agreement. I still prefer this method because

I remembered I did not get good grade in one of my assaignment in the first semister because I assumed wrongly that witout proffreding the reader is able easily understand my thoughts or ideas, but I was wrong. After this experience I always proofread my all papers or essay before submit to Professors. All of my papers need a substantial amount of proofreading for grammatical errors, and for sentence’s structural problems. When I write a full sentence usually I stop and look back over it. If it sounds correct I move forward to the next sentence but when I feel the sentence doesn’t sound correct I try to fix the sentence’s structure. I always recheck the paragraph before moving to the next paragraph. I always make an outline before

Yesterday, P. Cecilia Liu submitted a request to have a document revised, proofread for changes; proofreader’s changes entered and then cold read. I assigned the clips portion of the a request to Fabian Soliz. I asked Fabian, upon completion of the clips, to send the document to the attorney with a note stating the file was going to be submitted for a cold read. He was then to print out the document and bring it back to the front desk so that it could be cold read. This is a standard procedure in word processing.

As the Professor has suggested to us, I would copy and paste your paper into PaperRater.com. It’s a great online tool to highlight grammar and spelling mistakes. I find it really helpful and it would identify any areas you have that need to be corrected. Also, anywhere you have a quote in your paper you should use an in-text citation. Please see the Purdue Online Writing Lab. (I have cited it below for your reference.) The Works Cited section of your paper should be a separate page, with the title centered. All citations should be double spaced, with the second and subsequent lines of each citation indented 0.5 inches. Again, please reference Purdue Online Writing Lab for more details.

When writing a paper, I usually just put a comma where it sounds the best. Although I did learn some of the comma rules during the class, I still need to work on my comma usage. Sentence structure is another concept I can improve when writing. In most of my papers I have at least one fragment. It is hard for me to tell when a sentence should end. Being able to identify sentence type is another area I can refine to communicate my ideas better. I am able to identify what a simple sentence is, but the compound complex is where I get confused. I also need to grow on my vocabulary, instead of using vague words all of the time. Most of my mistakes in my paper can be helped from when doing the color coding and clocking

In following the five steps of effective business writing, proofreading is something that I really don’t do much of. I would say that the area I need work on is proofreading because I forget where commas need to be placed at times. My biggest flaw as a writer is dealing with procrastination. Procrastinating is something that I do in excess way too often just because I try to avoid having to write anything in general. Yet if I had to write a simple text message I have no problem in doing so. Impatience is another aspect that I deal with when I have to write let’s say a paper or a letter. My impatience kicks in when I’m writing because I don’t like to take my time in writing; I find writing to be a hassle at times and try to avoid it all together.

Editing is what you begin doing as soon as you finish your first draft. The process writers use to catch errors usal to their own writing. It’s hard to edit or proofread a paper that you’ve just finished writing. It’s still too familiar, and you tend to skip over a lot of errors. Try creating a brief outline of your paper to ensure the organization is reasonable. Review your paper to ensure that your tone is appropriate for your audience and consistent throughout your paper. Determine areas where you could add, delete, or move text to make your content more effective. If you try to identify and revise too many things at once, you risk losing focus, and your proofreading will be less effective. Editing and proofreading are two different stages

Ellen Brock discussed a video on different types of necessary editing in her video, “What Are The Different Types of Edits for Novels”. Proofreading for me was natural as it is something I have done in the past, however, when I realized I was line editing, I was somewhat intimidated that I would make an incorrect correction. I cleaned up some of the writing by deleting repetitive words and phrases that would allow the paper to sound easier to read.

Ariel, I have also learned how to write sentences in an order that is easier for the reader to understand. I agree that we need to proofread everything. I realized that I can catch several errors if I walk away and come back a little later to proofread. I believe that online resources like; Grammarly and paperrater.com are very helpful. Online resources we have learned to use check your writing and give feedback right away.

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