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"With in-depth resources geared specifically to the proofreading skillset, this course will help you find the common places that errors hide, teach you how to deal with formatting and layout issues, and provide you with resources for finding work as a proofreader."

As the last copy editor at the end of a chain of five to six proofreaders, the intern described her job as gruelingly technical and "possibly one of the worst jobs you can have in publishing." During her time at Scholastic, a map--like any other graphic image--would be checked for factual or artistic errors together with the book's text.

Although Artaria's engraver incorporated almost all of the proofreaders corrections' into the plates before SJC was printed, a few omissions stand out.

The fact-checkers and the proofreaders ought to have been allowed one last look, too: the portrait of Shelley by Severn that adorns the cover of volume one appears in reverse in the entry under 'Shelley'; among other minor irritations I noticed that Balzac's Lost Illusions is once rendered as Lest Illusions; and a bibliographical entry under 'Soane' gives its author's name as Dean Ptolemy, rather than Ptolemy Dean.

Thank the Lord ( and the proofreaders at a Georgia company ( that a new edition of the Bible isn't a holy mess.

Meet Gerri Thorsteinson one of Herizons illustrious proofreaders and a staffer at the Manitoba Women's Advisory Council.

It is no coincidence that as I write this, an essay entitled, "Where Have All the Proofreaders Gone?" has just appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Robert McHenry, November 15, 2002, B5).

Beryl Hamilton, one of COUNTRYSIDE'S proofreaders, had a little unexpected help a few issues ago.

* If all three proofreaders agree on needed corrections, you are done.

It hopes that the strategies outlined may make teaching composition "fun and exciting." The paper offers the following suggestions: (1) Teacher as trainer (not proofreader or grader); (2) Teacher as reader; (3) Students as editors and proofreaders; (4) Writing as collaboration; (5) Submit only best work; (6) Writing comes in many packages; (7) Writing communities; (8) Coping with the paper load.

Washington and Wilson have been close friends since 1985 when Washington was a high school intern and Wilson was a college student and both worked as proofreaders at a New York firm.

* "We have so many proofreaders that we can work on a huge number of jobs in parallel."

For those of you who are publishing professionals, like the reader above, and have specific skills, BIBR will introduce a publishing services page where editors, proofreaders, designers and other freelancers can advertise to BIBR readers.

"There were noticeably more errors to the point it was really annoying to readers." The unpaid proofreaders, many of them retirees and teachers, will tour the Register with Foley, will be given Associated Press style manuals, and will proof the paper from home.

We could also bring in proofreaders to figure out what those prescriptions really say, or institute mandatory penmanship classes for all pre-meds.