RE: Proofreading your own material

Subject: RE: Proofreading your own material
From: "Rick Quatro" <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>
To: "'Meryl R. Cohen'" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'techwr-l List'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:17:14 -0500

Because one of the staff proofreaders didn't sign off on it.



From: Meryl R. Cohen [mailto:merylster -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 10:33 AM
To: Rick Quatro; techwr-l List
Subject: Re: Proofreading your own material



"Fired for proofreading your own material"!?



Why, and would they know anyway?



Meryl

On Saturday, February 14, 2015, Rick Quatro <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com> wrote:

This may be a good idea for amateur writers responding in comments, but
dangerous for professionals. I have worked at places where you will get
fired for proofreading your own material. On another note, replying to
idiots is usually fruitless, regardless of how good your spelling is.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick -at- frameexpert -dot- com <javascript:;>



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Of Peter Neilson
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Subject: Proofreading your own material

Newly discovered (or rediscovered) proofing technique may be of aid to lone
tech writers.

My wife has recently become a prolific contributer to a couple of amateur
science blogs. She has noticed that in the heat of responding to
idiots////// people with whom she disagrees she can make errors. The most
difficult kind is typing one valid word where a different one was intended.
Recently she wrote "leave" instead of "live".

She's found a proofreading technique that I'd never considered. She copies
and pastes her material into LibreOffice and changes the font size! The
bigger size is easier to read and moreover it now looks like something
written by someone else!
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Follow-Ups:

References:
Proofreading your own material: From: Peter Neilson
RE: Proofreading your own material: From: Rick Quatro
Re: Proofreading your own material: From: Meryl R. Cohen

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