Comments on: 12 tips for proofreading your own work https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/ Better business outcomes with clear, effective writing. Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:38:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: eleanor meecham https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-362 Mon, 02 May 2016 20:26:06 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-362 In reply to Adam Warren.

Thanks very much, Adam. I’m glad you found these posts useful. Do feel free to share the advice.

]]> By: Adam Warren https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-361 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:06:40 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-361 Thank you Eleanor, Corinna and Meredith: the general proofreading article and the 12 tips are well worth reading and a great help. The first aptly summarises the issue, and is a good way of refreshing one’s approach to a necessary, and probably the most arduous part of delivering a draft.

]]> By: eleanor meecham https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-360 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:47:37 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-360 In reply to annemjw.

What a great idea, Anne. That’s a novel way to use Google translate. I’m going to give it a go!

]]> By: annemjw https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-359 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:38:51 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-359 Another tip is to read it aloud – or if you don’t want to do that yourself, plug sections into google translate and get the computer to read it aloud for you!

]]> By: eleanor meecham https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-358 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:46:27 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-358 In reply to Ali Turnbull.

Fantastic tips, Ali! Thanks very much. I haven’t heard of PerfectIt before, but it looks useful. We use StyleWriter plain English software, which I suspect has a similar aim.

]]> By: Ali Turnbull https://writegroup.io/12-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/#comment-357 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:30:30 +0000 http://writeclearlyblog.com/?p=3374#comment-357 To #9 I would add – use Word’s ‘speak’ function and blow the text up to full screen width. And to #11 – the excellent PerfectIt app for consistency http://www.intelligentediting.com/

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