Agree w lots of this. For me: always hard copy, never in the same place (my desk) as I wrote it, and with a good interval after writing (if possible). I also use a checklist. After all that, I still have another person read it.
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I...suddenly understand why you have a printer.
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I feel that. I wound up budgeting for a proof reader for my dissertation. Now Because I am bad at life, and my dad was sick, I blew through that budget, fortunately I had friends. Also my chair proofed the first draft.
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One of my committee members basically did that work for me, for which I'm extremely grateful. It's just very hard.
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I'm going to call this the Christopher Walken.
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It’s not glamorous, but this: Powerful Proofreading Skills: Tips, Techniques, and Tactics https://www.amazon.com/dp/1560522593/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d5rTCb00SYHJE … Also, the concept of levels of edit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levels_of_edit …
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Read out loud, or have the computer read it out loud to you. Sometimes if I’m too close to a doc I read out loud what I meant to write and not what is actually on the page.

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Oh I hadn't thought of computer read-back. That may be very good for me!
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How much time do you allow between writing the piece and editing it? Sometimes, a minimum of a week helps. Even writing another piece before editing the previous can help as well.
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Yea, I'm starting to realize that's part of my problem. I don't like to let things settle which seems to be a bad process for editing.
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