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Hi, I am a freshman here and I want to get ahead in my English writing. Could someone tell me how to improve the skill of proof reading? Thanks very much.
Hi, I am a freshman here and I want to get ahead in my English writing. Could someone tell me how to improve the skill of proof reading? Thanks very much.
Take a ruler and read everyline from the bottom of the page up.
There is not anything I dislike more than proofing my own writing. Have someone you trust proof it. If you cannot do that, put it down and come back to it later. I seem to have such a much harder time finding errors if I write something and then immediately proof it.
Proof reading 
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