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This read you can? If so, you’ll catch a lot of typos…
October 9, 2007 by Lani Voivod, Chief Scribbler.
(Note: This comes from my hubby and fellow scribbler Allen Voivod, from a writer’s newsletter he wrote back in 2006 - still useful today!)
It’s weird to see something you’ve advocated for years, and never heard anyone anywhere else say, suddenly appear as a tip on your Day Runner desk calendar. That’s what happened to me recently with this month’s tool for proofreading your content: read backward.
There’s no more efficient manual spell-checking technique I’ve found than the backward method. It’s not totally backward, since your mind will automatically try to restart you going forward. And THAT reflex is particularly useful for catching your/you’re and their/there/they’re mistakes.
The one downside: it’s somewhat time-consuming. But it can’t be beat for sending anything upon which your reputation may depend. Assuming you placed in the top 10% of your childhood spelling bees, of course. Otherwise, it’s off to Dictionary.com with you.
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