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Sociologist
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What software or editing tips would you recommend pre-copy editing? Did you thoroughly review your manuscript or leave or the editing to the copy editor?

6 months ago # QUOTE 1 GOOD 8 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
03ae

Read your work closely. No software will do that for you.

6 months ago # QUOTE 15 GOOD 0 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
006f

Any author knows you have to read and review that thing back and forth multiple, multiple times - you should be able to recite whole pages by the time you're finished. The software is in your brain.

6 months ago # QUOTE 7 GOOD 0 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
e1d7

Print it out. Read the print out

6 months ago # QUOTE 11 GOOD 0 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
ddf9

I use Grammarly

6 months ago # QUOTE 1 GOOD 3 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
88c2

Print it out. Read the print out

That worked particularly well for me. There are so many mistakes or just awkward sounding sentences that I didn't get until I heard myself say them.

6 months ago # QUOTE 2 GOOD 1 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
584b

Used Microsoft word and a lot of effort.

6 months ago # QUOTE 0 GOOD 1 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
662d

Read it backwards.

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Sociologist
88c2

Read it backwards.

I've done that with an article manuscript. It worked well but took forever.

6 months ago # QUOTE 1 GOOD 0 NO GOOD !
Sociologist
e530

I’ve read the page proofs for my book so many times that I hate it.

6 months ago # QUOTE 3 GOOD 0 NO GOOD !