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Good proofreaders are rare, but highly valued, because they save the rest of us from embarrassing mistakes. Proofreading requires that you s-l-o-w down your reading so that you are moving not from phrase to phrase, or word to word, but from letter to letter. This exercise shows you how to train your “proofreading eye.” Test your proofreading skills. How many errors can you find in this student’s rough draft? The key to your finding happiness is learning to life without consumer items. As a culture, we are to likely to determine how happy we are by how much things we have. This way of thinking may be fine for those that are independantly wealthy, but the rest of us doom ourself to unhappiness thinking this way. There are a total of six mistakes. Take a look at the following corrections.
The key to your finding happiness is learning to Other links to editing and proofreading sites are listed in Web Destinations.
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