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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to look with new eyes.
Whenever you are working on something important, try to give it a final review in a slightly different format than you have reviewed it before.
You just might catch something your old eyes didn't see.
No matter how skilled and careful a proofreader you are, you can miss things.
Our brains have a way of reading what was meant instead of what was written.
This comes in handy if you're trying to get the gist of a text a friend dictated while driving.
Or if you are reading the letter that your first -grade nephew wrote you all by himself.
But this feature of our brains is not so helpful when we are looking at something we created, especially if we've been looking at it for a while.
You've read that last paragraph three times.
You know what it says.
But do you? I can speak from personal experience with embarrassing typos that, no, you do not necessarily know what it says.
Our eyes can glaze over after a while.
So the trick to catching errors is to look at whatever we have created with new eyes.
One easy way to do this is to put a little space between your first review and your final review.
A day or more is good, though I know that's not really reasonable for short things.
But an hour would be nice.
Write that important email before lunch.
Save it as a draft.
And then review it after lunch.
Maybe you will see that you repeated the word, the.
It's probably not a deal killer, but best not to let it happen.
Another trick is to print out the document or switch the font or type size.
Your subsequent reading experience will be different enough from your previous editing experience that you may catch something you missed before.
In a different font or type size, that word that was at the end of the line may no longer be at the end of the line, which means that you will see that your sentence doesn't make quite as much sense as you thought it did.
Finally, reading what you wrote out loud, either from the screen or from a hard copy, can be wise too.
Even if the piece is designed to be read silently, reading out loud may draw your attention to any awkward phrasings and the overall flow of the text.
It will also slow you down, which may let you catch any typos that have slipped by thus far.
I spend much of my work time writing, and I'm pretty good at catching my mistakes.
But I never regret giving an important document a final review with new eyes.
It's not a waste of time.
Indeed, sometimes it saves time when the final document is more clear.
People know what you intend, so you spend less time explaining.
And that is a big win.
In the meantime, this is Laura, thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura .lauravanderkam .com.
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