[BC] Re: Proofreading

[Xmitters@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/06 1:35:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

<< This is true in so many different ways.  I find that proofreading on 
 a screen and proofreading a printed page on white paper are two 
 entirely different things.  Many, many times I have finished proofing 
 and spell-checking a document I've written, and am sure it's correct.
 Then, after I print it, my eye will fall on a glaring error that 
 simply jumps off the page at me.
 
 For this reason, I now proof from print as an extra step on mission-
 critical documents.
 
 Grady
  >>

Grady,

Thank you for the post! I thought I was the only person with this problem. I 
wrote a 60 page document on a circuit analysis project, read it on screen a 
gazzilion times. Then found errors o the hard copy. I wasted about 180 pages 
before I got a clean print. Obviously errors caused in the printing process 
itself you can't catch on screen and I had one or to of those too. 

I tend no not like reading long documents on a computer screen. I therefore 
strongly dislike e-books. I simply prefer handling pages and thumbing through a 
book rather than clicking on Forward and Back arrows. I seem to comprehend 
better from hard copy than from reading from a screen. Sounds like a good topic 
for a Master's thesis, does it not?

Anyway, thanks for helping to make my day :-)

Jeff Glass
Northern Illinois University