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Originally Posted by teh603
Proper editing is a joke these days. Nobody bothers to proofread anymore, not even the big name guys.
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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.
Robyn Jane