The Advantages of Proofreading Aloud

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Many writers and editors will say the best way to proofread is to read your work aloud. The reason is that by hearing the written words, you will be more likely to catch any errors. If a passage doesn’t sound right to the writer who spent days working on it, then it won’t make sense to the readers who are seeing it for the first time.

Typos are different from frequent errors. Nobody wants to see typos but they can, and do, happen. It’s late at night. You’ve looked at the page so often, yo...