{"id":594,"date":"2021-03-30T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/?post_type=chapter&p=594"},"modified":"2021-10-12T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:16:00","slug":"introduction-to-proofreading","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/chapter\/introduction-to-proofreading\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Proofreading","rendered":"Introduction to Proofreading"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_3082\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\"]\"A Is it time to paint yet?[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s always tempting to jump into proofreading too early. This is especially the case if you\u2019ve given your paper to a professor or a peer for review, and it comes back with lots of word- and sentence-level corrections (maybe even in red ink). If you haven\u2019t revised your paper yet, ignore these line edits!\r\n\r\nIf you think of the revision process in terms of renovating a building, revision is like moving walls around, whereas proofreading is like painting. You wouldn't want to painstakingly paint a wall that's going to be torn down any more than you'd want to spend time polishing a sentence that gets cut in revision. In short, make sure to revise before proofreading<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nOnce you're ready to proofread, though, you need a strategy. The following pages offer tips and tactics to finalize your paper and get it ready to turn in.","rendered":"
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It\u2019s always tempting to jump into proofreading too early. This is especially the case if you\u2019ve given your paper to a professor or a peer for review, and it comes back with lots of word- and sentence-level corrections (maybe even in red ink). If you haven\u2019t revised your paper yet, ignore these line edits!<\/p>\n

If you think of the revision process in terms of renovating a building, revision is like moving walls around, whereas proofreading is like painting. You wouldn’t want to painstakingly paint a wall that’s going to be torn down any more than you’d want to spend time polishing a sentence that gets cut in revision. In short, make sure to revise before proofreading<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Once you’re ready to proofread, though, you need a strategy. The following pages offer tips and tactics to finalize your paper and get it ready to turn in.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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