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Old 04-09-2012, 03:32 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
Proper editing is a joke these days. Nobody bothers to proofread anymore, not even the big name guys.
It has been my sad experience that some of the worst examples of this are in the notes and messages my step-daughter brings home from her high school. Misspellings, wrong choice of words, poor grammar and punctuation--my knee-jerk reaction is generally, "And you claim to be educating young minds?"

By religious use of your spell-checker, you can eliminate a lot of errors in your books. But more important than that, learn basic English (or whatever other language you're using). Use a dictionary and a thesaurus in addition to your computer resources. After all, I am always delighted when I get a computer grammar-checker to choke on this perfectly-correct sentence: "The girl the boy the dog bit hit cried."

Once you've written your final draft, have a friend review it for you--after, of course, you've read it yourself word by word--backwards. It's a great way to catch misspellings.

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