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While editing and proofreading are totally different, they do have a few things in common. Learn what they have in common in this article. Future articles will discuss each separately.

How to Edit and Proofread Your Own Writing

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I love those suggestions! I will be using those. Thanks again for a great article.

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Thank you Jana,

I appreciate your interest and comments.

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Bluedolphin, thanks for your tips! I love them.

Changing text font and size is brilliant!


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Thank you Deanna!

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I need to chime in and tell you how much I enjoyed and learned from your article. I always try to give myself some space from my writing, but I loved your suggestions of color, text and size changes. I tend to write and edit on the computer due to ink issues. I never have ink. That's a whole article in itself.
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Here is something I do in order to eliminate typos and to make my pieces (blog-posts, minutes of meetings, and short essays) as readable as possible. When I've run spell-check and before I sign off on the piece, I read it aloud. That sounds weird, but it really does make it more acceptable to readers.

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Hi Gordon,

I read aloud also. Thank you for adding that here in the forum. I know it will help a lot of other people.

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Mind you, I only do it when there's nobody around. I stop immediately if my wife comes into the room!

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Yes, Gordon, I agree with reading it out loud. But not if there's anyone around! When you read it out loud, you're much more likely to spot missing words or duplicated words, as well as things that have just become garbled.

And Bluedolphin, thank you. Changing the font is something I hadn't thought of. But I realize that when I enter an article into the BOL system and see it on the screen, errors leap out at me that were completely invisible during my editing. I will try changing he font before entering them, since I don't have to be online for that.

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