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Thread #97781   Message #1927965
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
06-Jan-07 - 12:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Proofreading tricks
Subject: RE: BS: Proofreading tricks
Read it out loud. You'll find a lot things that way, and you'll find sentences that don't flow the way you intended much easier if they are spoken.

I am dyslexic, so as a writer, I have to give articles time to cool before I proofread them or I won't see errors. But the out loud reading is as solid a "trick" as anything else you can do. The syllable by syllable thing sounds excruciating more than anything else.

SRS