{"id":1231,"date":"2020-03-25T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab\/chapter\/adopting-a-listening-ear\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T22:17:42","slug":"adopting-a-listening-ear","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-writingskillslab-2\/chapter\/adopting-a-listening-ear\/","title":{"raw":"Adopting a Listening Ear","rendered":"Adopting a Listening Ear"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Demonstrate ability to proofread<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe key to revising your work for grammar (both word choice and wording) and mechanics (small but important matters such as punctuation) is to listen to your work anew. The best writers adopt an objective \u201clistening ear,\u201d learning to detect their problems of grammar and mechanics both intuitively and methodically, pretending they\u2019re encountering the work for the first time no matter how many times they\u2019ve re-read it.\r\n\r\nAs you develop this practice, you can count on two things.\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We tend to repeat the same errors over and over in our writing.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other writers make the same errors we do.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nIf we have one comma error in an essay, we\u2019re likely to have others; if we have a particular usage problem such as the distinction between \u201c<strong>affect<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>effect<\/strong>,\u201d we can be sure other writers have it too. By studying the most common errors and revising accordingly, we\u2019re likely to improve our work substantially. And when we make particularly common errors in our writing (such as confusing \u201c<strong>it\u2019s<\/strong>\u201d with \u201c<strong>its<\/strong>\u201d), our audience is justified in viewing us as lazy because such errors are easy to reason through and correct.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1173\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2097\/2019\/06\/05192640\/austinpowersmeme-1024x691.png\" alt=\"I noticed you print your assignments without proofreading them: I too like to live dangerously (Austin Powers Meme)\" width=\"499\" height=\"337\" \/>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate ability to proofread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The key to revising your work for grammar (both word choice and wording) and mechanics (small but important matters such as punctuation) is to listen to your work anew. The best writers adopt an objective \u201clistening ear,\u201d learning to detect their problems of grammar and mechanics both intuitively and methodically, pretending they\u2019re encountering the work for the first time no matter how many times they\u2019ve re-read it.<\/p>\n<p>As you develop this practice, you can count on two things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We tend to repeat the same errors over and over in our writing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other writers make the same errors we do.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If we have one comma error in an essay, we\u2019re likely to have others; if we have a particular usage problem such as the distinction between \u201c<strong>affect<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>effect<\/strong>,\u201d we can be sure other writers have it too. By studying the most common errors and revising accordingly, we\u2019re likely to improve our work substantially. And when we make particularly common errors in our writing (such as confusing \u201c<strong>it\u2019s<\/strong>\u201d with \u201c<strong>its<\/strong>\u201d), our audience is justified in viewing us as lazy because such errors are easy to reason through and correct.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1173\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2097\/2019\/06\/05192640\/austinpowersmeme-1024x691.png\" alt=\"I noticed you print your assignments without proofreading them: I too like to live dangerously (Austin Powers Meme)\" width=\"499\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1231\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul 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