When I’m proofreading…
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I read like a small child.
π£οΈ I read the words aloud.
π’I read them slowly.
πI follow along with my finger.
I find this particularly helpful when reading sentences with a lot of two/three letter words in them.
Our eyes can gloss over these all too easily.
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πThe tide is on its way in.
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ποΈAll I want to do is get back to the island.
It’s my strategy for making sure that there are no missing words.
And it works. βοΈ
πTry it next time you want to double check that something you’ve written is right.