Comments on: 12 tips for proofreading your own work

By: eleanor meecham

eleanor meecham — Mon, 02 May 2016 20:26:06 +0000

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

Adam Warren — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:06:40 +0000

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

eleanor meecham — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:47:37 +0000

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

annemjw — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:38:51 +0000

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

eleanor meecham — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:46:27 +0000

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

Ali Turnbull — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:30:30 +0000

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/