How to Proofread Your Work

Having been a professional writer for over 20 years, I can't stress how important it is to proofread your work. Talking about proof, let me check out this bottle of Kentucky Gentlemen next to me. It is 80 proof. To determine what the proof of a whiskey is, you take the alcohol content, most whiskeys are 40 %, and multiply that by two.

So a whiskey containing 40% alcohol is 80 proof whiskey.

Anyway - that is why it is important to proof read. You might buy a bottle of whisky that is 100 proof, which is basically saying, take a sip of this and kiss your tonsils goodbye

But why do whiskey makers call it "proof"? The answer is obvious. You are suppose to drink it while you "proofread" your work. That is why so many famous writers were alcoholics. They firmly believed in proofreading. Unfortunately,, they read the proof on Whiskey bottles and not their own writings.

But I digress. The proof of a whiskey, be it 80 or 100 %, helps your proofread your work better. Let's use an example. It is time to proofread the first paragraph. Perhaps we should revise it. Let's give it a shot. Okay, hang on, while I take another shot. Now whw\ were we. Oh yesss, ProooREADIG.

Let's look at the first paragraph and seee how proof reading engances it.

Well, it starts off badly, becase the essay is not abiut my career, so let's cross out that opening crap about me writing for 20 years. The article is about prrrof reading. One must stay focused when writing.

The opening paragraph also has a major error that my keen proof reading eyes caught. It is not Kentucky Gentlemen. It is Kentucky Gentleman. If it were Kentucky Gentlemen, there would be picture of two men on the bottle. The bottle obviously only has a picture of one gentleman on the bottle. Hey look, he is winking at me. At least I thunk he is , but they really have to stop putting blurry pictures on the BOTTLe.

Well, there you have it. The importance or poof reading. Poof, I am done and will now have another dink..

Oh yes, let's not even talk about the spell checker. All it has done is fill this essay with angry red lines. I think it nees to lighten up and have a drink. And the gammer check? A little OCD if you ast me.