{"id":47965,"date":"2014-11-12T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/proofreading-is-important.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:04:39","slug":"proofreading-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/proofreading-is-important.html","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. Proofread your work before you submit it (academic papers, memos, stories). Read it. Read it again. Read it out loud. Give it to someone else to look over, too.<\/p>\n<p>Because 99 times out of 100, it will probably be okay. But that 1 time in 100 will be &#8230; embarrassing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/11\/11\/_crappy_gabor_paper_overly_honest_citation_slips_into_peer_reviewed_journal.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/PxVRFQxKTf1HrfmTnEi3P5xAEfrqsXn9dOCRXo5Mk1s0IyK35qx6844Bdb-TTxD8dJ6xRnDWR1g-W-ooiC3RzVCbDjkupNisSjPNl_48FhiTEaJihNWN8YUcHdjyhC2i9i6_sCnZ_GJ5naVU6-uKdBuh5jryL1WFYwnJrSkpz3l1sQ7IGl1jx1PZ2bsKtM-oWkOVctTLQi1yliVvA1Kx2APjgYzx-qWJCUCGrPzS7ybigGv9B3VIj5eOCV0EUN08RQKRDkZRbVm7MdAN6q4m4zjiJ6z2wFGk1aSo2gOiIQXDQDE=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/11\/11\/_crappy_gabor_paper_overly_honest_citation_slips_into_peer_reviewed_journal.html'>This Is What Happens When No One Proofreads an Academic Paper<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBy now we all know, or ought to know, that just because something is published in a peer-reviewed academic journal doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s true. But we can at least assume it&#8217;s been proofread, right? Apparently not. A priceless gaffe, which has been making the rounds of academic Twitter this week,&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/a2YixhFxhYt'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. Proofread your work before you submit it (academic papers, memos, stories). Read it. Read it again. Read it out loud. Give it to someone else to look over, too. Because 99 times out of 100, it will probably be okay. But that 1 time in 100 will be &#8230; embarrassing. This Is What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/proofreading-is-important.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proofreading is important&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/rt-sekimori-notes-100-word.html","url_meta":{"origin":47965,"position":0},"title":"100 Word Stories &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Mar-09 9:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"RT: @sekimori notes - 100 Word Stories is back on the air. http:\/\/100wordstories.com\/ Which is a Twittery way of saying (since it was reposted from Twitter) that Stacy's got the 100 Word Stories site back up, which gives me no excuse not to be doing a regular (daily) creative writing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131554,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/the-tank-turns-100.html","url_meta":{"origin":47965,"position":1},"title":"The Tank turns 100","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Sep-16 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The first tanks were almost as dangerous to their crew as to the enemy -- but they represented the first steps in a revolution in land warfare that's still going on today. 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