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Subject:RE: Proofreading your own material From:"Bill Darnall" <billdarnall -at- writingandtraining -dot- com> To:"'Meryl R. Cohen'" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Rick Quatro'" <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>, "'techwr-l List'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:55:33 -0800
Copyediting vs. proofreading
-Bill
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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:33 AM
To: Rick Quatro; techwr-l List
Subject: Re: Proofreading your own material
"Fired for proofreading your own material"!?
Why, and would they know anyway?
Meryl
On Saturday, February 14, 2015, Rick Quatro <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com> wrote:
> This may be a good idea for amateur writers responding in comments,
> but dangerous for professionals. I have worked at places where you
> will get fired for proofreading your own material. On another note,
> replying to idiots is usually fruitless, regardless of how good your
spelling is.
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-366-4017
> rick -at- frameexpert -dot- com <javascript:;>
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> Subject: Proofreading your own material
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> 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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