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YouTube - The Impotence of Proofreading By Taylor Mali
YouTube - The Impotence of Proofreading By Taylor Mali
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The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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Oh thats brilliant!!
Kirsty b xx
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing that!
"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Thanks Bubblewrap; I needed that.
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HeHe. That was so funny.
I handed my Dissertation in on monday but got a friend to proof read for me and in 10247 words I made over 130 errors and thats with spell check. My spelling is awful and my spell check doesnt recognise half of the words I use like Sphagnum. I also write words the wrong way round like from instead of form and visa versa.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup!Comment
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At least your friend let you know BEFORE you handed it in. I got a proof back from a friend half an hour after I sent (what I thought was the final!) it to the binders - with a load of mistakes marked out. Mainly grammer and spelling (like practise should have been practice in about 40 places!!), but a couple of fundamentals (the Euro is STRENGTHENING against the dollar, which is causing the weakening of the ECONOMY), and someone else rang me this morning to say I had mixed up the legal systems - that in fact Ireland and the UK are the ones with the COMMON law while continental Europe is the one with the CIVIL law.
I think I will be bringing a redraft to the binders this afternoon. If i get my head in gear to actually do the edits......I thought I was FINISHED!!!! I wanna cry......Comment
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Oh dear. Thats more than annoying!!!
I feel your pain Winged one.Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup!Comment
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Nice one BW!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Loved that.
It's so true I found it much easier to print my work out then read it aloud to myself, if there is no-one to hand to help you go through it, my gramma, punctuation, spelling is really bad, my fingers type so fast I press enter before I've really read through it properly. Most may have noticed on here, my handwritting is worst, why I am not a doctor or a lawyer I do not know, I scrawl and put captial letters where they shouldn't be,
I wonder how many people in their replies to this post will double check their typing before entering their post
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Why use a spell cheque?
When you always get it rite!
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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Love it!
Just wish I could use it with my GCSE students before they hand in their coursework...You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
blog: http://allyheebiejeebie.blogspot.com/ and my (basic!) page: http://www.allythegardener.co.uk/Comment
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