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Subject:RE: How do you edit your own writing? From:Ken Bowes <KBowes -at- dacg -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:12:27 -0600
"Peter Shea (USF)" wrote:
>
> Read your work out loud whenever you can. The ear catches things that the
> eye does not.
To a certain extent, I've developed a mental ear that works much the
same as the actual one, but I still rely on speaking and hearing if
I'm uncertain.
One could always try using a tape recorder and playing it back from that.
Your voice sounds different that way and it may help.
Ken Bowes
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