the value of proofreading [Learn from the mistakes of others]

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proofreading essays is a really good idea. especially if you do it before you hand them in.

i have been slaving away at an essay on curriculum frameworks (don't worry if you have no idea what they are - half the jokers i've been reading don't seem to know either)

one of the key ideas that crops up time and time again is the idea of 'key learning areas'.

not, as i at some point inadvertently began to use, 'key leering areas'.

while the slip up may have amused some, i'm pretty glad i spotted that one before i hit send.

particularly as i have spent some of my essay discussing my recent experiences in an all girls private school. and no. i did not partake in any leering while i was there.

really, really.

Mood::

relieved

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Yeah proofreading is a good idea but I find I am never satisfied, in the end I just have to draw the line somewhere. I have been known not to proofread, luckily without such potentially embarrassing mistakes!

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the problem arose last night when i was tired and simply accepted an autocorrect. meh! [it's deleted. happy again.]

i have been known to submit entire essays without having once read what i've actually written (in the complete sense, not literally).

one of them even got published 'as is'!

but as a general rule, i'm far too paranoid to be so brash very often.

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I'm always tired when I write essays - usually 5am the morning it is due in! Or three weeks after deadline because I am too lazy to do it on time!

I used to hate re-reading my work but I am far too much of a perfectionist to not do it these days.

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i handed my first honours thesis in 5 min before the deadline. having spent the whole of the previous three days awake trying to finish it off.

oddly enough, i ended up with a new girlfriend out of that exercise too. on friday evening she was a friend coming over to see how i was going. sometime sunday morning we realised there was a little more hand holding going on than was strictly necessary for mounting photos and so on.

i have always been, and still am, too much of a perfectionist for my own good.

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and on an entirely different topic: any idea who the brunette in white in your icon here is?

i have no idea, and i'm about to loose a stupid bet over it. dumb males. [yeah. that'd be me.]

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No idea, sorry.

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is ok. i just brow beat my ~~assailant~~ ~~opponent~~ housemate into submission.

turns out he was only guessing :)

this icon looks like it might be ms spears.

i should go try