Kate Klise

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

American Author

Tim Pratt

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I'm getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though.

American Writer

Erik Larson

The writer marks the changes he wants to make, while a proofreader also goes through the galley, checking it page-by-page against the manuscript. Once all these changes are identified, a second-pass proof is made, and this, too, gets sent to the author and the proofreader, and the process begins anew.

Robert De Niro

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

Actor

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.

American Novelist

J. A. Konrath

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

Lindsay Mendez

I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.

American Actress

Noam Chomsky

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

American Activist

Rajinikanth

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

Indian Actor

Sam Trammell

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

American Actor

Proofreading specifically targets spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in a text.

Error Checking

Proofreading is usually the last step in the writing process to polish the text.

Final Step

Effective proofreading requires careful attention to detail to notice small mistakes.

Attention to Detail

 and then you say, "Whoa, there are two 'the's' in the sentence." This is a really cool trick for proofreading papers. You're writing your paper and there are these silly mistakes. Why are these mistakes in my paper? You read it backwards, you'll catch all of them. Alright, let's go on to this problem, an interesting problem.

Working backward to...

 they they could have chosen to hire a proofreader I used to be one it took me four seconds to mark this up and I would have given the mates rates for the job and I think that would have been money well spent because this is a written medium built for posterity

The evolution of the...

 a set of activities to avoid while working. Think about your to-don't list. What would you put on it? When I'm working on my boring procrastinogenic tasks, like reading contracts and proofreading articles, my to-don't list includes don't play online Scrabble,

The real reason you...

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