Proofreading

Dear readers,

A discussion over lunch the other day made me wonder how you do it – the proofreading part of your job, or your writing, or whatever it is that you proofread.

I proofed for an engineer during college, after learning how to proofread backwards for my high-school literary mag (thank you, Mrs. K!). I still proof backwards (which is an acquired taste, admittedly), as well as reading aloud. For my first full-time job, I was as a night proofreader for a government services firm outside...