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Murphy's Law assures us that no amount of proofreading will uncover all the errors in a set of proofs.work about to be published. The question is, how many re-readings are reasonable? In my personal experience I have found that two readings of galleys and two readings of page proofs will catch 99 percent of the errors. Unfortunately, the remaining 1 percent are often the mistakes that not only cause not only embarrassment but trouble—for. For example, mispelled names or incorrect catalog numbers for merchandise.the wrong numbers for ordering merchandise or misspelled names. |
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Murphy's Law assures us that no amount of proofreading will uncover all the errors in a set of proofs. The question is, how many re-readings are reasonable? I have found that two readings of galleys and two readings of page proofs will catch 99 percent of the errors. Unfortunately, the remaining 1 percent are often the mistakes that cause not only embarrassment but trouble—for example, mispelled names or incorrect catalog numbers for merchandise.
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