Journal #8

Taylor Mali was right about the fact that it is very important to proofread. If you do not, there is a very good chance that something will slip by one and go into your work such as an extra word, a skipped word, or different letters that one may have wanted. He proves that if one does not proofread, one can have a very bad paper or writing assignment that is not only grammatically incorrect, but is also inappropriate for the class or person that one is writing for. People may come up with words that while may be spelled right, are not the correct word that one wanted to use, such as using thesis instead of this or something of that nature. Sometimes one's fingers get away from them and are trying to work as fast as their brain, which is impossible, but it is very common for people to leave out words that way. They could be going right along and they may have skipped a word, but because their brains are still going full speed, they may not even realize the word is missing. There is also a good chance that people will use a word twice in a context that it would not make sense for. They could be in the middle of a sentence when, say, their brother interrupts them and makes them pause for a moment, making them lose their train of thought. They may come back to their paper and reread the sentence, remembering their train of thought again, but they may not have realized they already have one of the words down, so they may type it again. Having another person proofread a paper can also be incredibly important, because they may find something that one has missed. There are quite a few possible reasons for people to type things wrong, and that just helps to prove that proofreading, possibly by more than one person, is necessary when writing something that could be important.