I went through some of my other English essays from last year and also the first writing assignment we did and found that the tips given by Grammar Girl and the comments on her website were actually quite helpful. I believe that the reading of my papers backwards worked as the best way to proofread my own essays. It was much harder to do so I was paying extreme attention to the details throughout the essays. I found a spelling error or two and some spacing issues, but as for finding coma errors and things of that caliber, the backwards tip was useless. To find the real sneaky and dirty grammatical errors, I had to read my essays out loud and give my self time to think about the sentence structure, repeating it in my head over and over again.
All in all, I found the Grammar Girl to be very interesting and helpful. I even listened in on a few more of her pod casts on grammar style issues, excessive redundant redundancies, and the grammar manners. I will be using the tips more often and I am positive they will be of great help to my future proofreading.
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