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Contents

Introduction
Detailed contents
Getting started
Style
- Elements of style 1 2 3
- Specifications 1 2
- A final word
Punctuation 1 2 3
How to proofread 1 2
The proofreading symbols
Copy editing
Proofreading's future
glossary
Search
Further reading
Exercise 1 2 3

Forum

Appendix
US/British English
Greek characters
Japanese characters

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A final word

Several years ago a report came out by a group of dentists. They had judged the dental rectitude of a number of entrants in a well-known beauty pageant and concluded that most of them would have been offered corrective treatment had they entered their own surgeries. Although the entrants were, in the estimation of many, rather attractive, the dentists saw that in at least one respect (or perhaps in 32 respects) they were less than perfect. What does this prove? It proves that there is "right" in a studied, empirical sense, and there's "right" in an aesthetic, cultural sense.




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