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Poll: When proofreading your own work, how many corrections do you usually find per page?
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Interesting replies! Sep 14, 2017

I did use the word "corrections", and perhaps it might have been better to have written "alterations" or "amendments". There! I have even suggested a correction for my own question. I do not mind confessing that I tend to make quite a lot of corrections when proofreading, and I think I'm in good com... See more
I did use the word "corrections", and perhaps it might have been better to have written "alterations" or "amendments". There! I have even suggested a correction for my own question. I do not mind confessing that I tend to make quite a lot of corrections when proofreading, and I think I'm in good company: https://biblioklept.org/2014/01/22/manuscript-page-of-eliots-the-waste-land-with-notes-by-ezra-pound/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuscipt.jpg

By the time I have finished translating a file, especially if it is a long one of any complexity, I have usually engaged with it sufficiently to have changed my mind about some things. This is besides any actual errors of punctuation etc. or dictation software. I might also see better ways of phrasing things. I try to re-read my own work as though it had been written by another person, but one who will not be offended by my corrections.

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