Question

Need help to proofread essay...

Answer 1

We will be happy to read over your papers and make suggestions as long as you follow these directions first:

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Please go over your paper with the following in mind. Thanks to PsyDAG for the following:

<i>In the future, if nobody is available to proofread your work, you can do this yourself. After writing your material, put it aside for a day — at least several hours. (This breaks mental sets you might have that keep you from noticing problems.) <b>Then read it aloud as if you were reading someone else's work.</b> (Reading aloud slows down your reading, so you are less likely to skip over problems.)</i>

(You can also either read it aloud to someone else or have someone else read it aloud to you! The latter works really well!)

<i>If your reading goes smoothly, that is fine. However, <b>wherever you "stumble" in your reading, other people are likely to have a problem in reading your material. Those "stumbles" indicate areas that need revising.</b>

Once you have made your revisions, repeat the process above. Good papers often require many drafts.</i>

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And here are some really good websites that will help, too:

http://teachro.publiccomputingservices.org/writing/proofreading.htm

http://blog.eduify.com/index.php/2009/10/28/editing-secrets-everyone-should-know/

http://teacher.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us/staff/dehogue/FSSH/proof.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/proofing.htm