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Subject:Proofreading your own material From:"Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:52:05 -0500
Newly discovered (or rediscovered) proofing technique may be of aid to
lone tech writers.
My wife has recently become a prolific contributer to a couple of amateur
science blogs. She has noticed that in the heat of responding to
idiots////// people with whom she disagrees she can make errors. The most
difficult kind is typing one valid word where a different one was
intended. Recently she wrote "leave" instead of "live".
She's found a proofreading technique that I'd never considered. She copies
and pastes her material into LibreOffice and changes the font size! The
bigger size is easier to read and moreover it now looks like something
written by someone else!
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