People! Don’t trust your spell check only.
Well not to capture more than misspelled words anyway and sometimes it finds it
hard to distinguish between US spelling and Australian spelling so may still
get it wrong.
Don’t rely on tools for digital accuracy
either; they may pick up spelling but not always grammar mistakes and if they
do pick up some grammatical errors they sometimes replace them with incorrect
suggestions. You just can’t beat the eye of a human proofreader. Digital will
cost you in more ways than one and will get you 50% but not 100%. A real
proofreader/editor will cost you too but you can often negotiate and your work
will be dead right.
There are a number of online programs you c
an
use such as Ginger, Whitesmoke, Text to speed, After the deadline, Microsoft
word, Online correction, Grammar check, Reverso, Spellcheck plus, Paper rater,
turnitin…just to name a few and then there’s
me. Try them yourself. On their landing page they give you an opportunity
to trial a passage. I tried with all of the above and not once did it pick up
all the errors. Truthfully they often managed 80% of the spelling errors,
sometimes more but missed the grammatical errors nearly 100% of the time. I
looked into these programs to be a backup for my editing and proofreading work
but was disappointed with the results. Certainly for spelling but then just go with
Microsoft word which is free and more accurate than the other programs I
trialled. If you're keen to get it right first time check out my website and contact me for a quote via my website www.kirstieanders.com
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