JBJ Class

Proofreading the Research Paper

- These are very common mistakes that you need to fix before turning in your "smooth draft."
  • using 1st person (I, me, my, mine, we, us, our & ours)
  • You need to spell out single-digit numbers (e.g., one instead of 1).
  • You also need to spell out numbers at the beginning of a sentence (e.g., Thirty percent of people...)
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- For these three columns, I won't show you what's wrong when I proofread your paper; I'll just circle it and let you figure it out.
  • ​a lot / alot
  • accept/except
  • affect/effect
  • allowed/aloud
  • could have / could of
  • definitely/defiantly​
  • fewer/less
  • good/well
  • here/hear​
  • it’s/its
  • ​lose/loose​
  • many/much
  • ​past/passed​
  • ​quite/quiet/quit
  • raise/rise
  • ​sit/set
  • then/than
  • they're/their/there​
  • ​to/too/two
  • waste/waist
  • whether/weather
  • which/witch
  • who's/whose​
  • who/whom
  • you're/your
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​For these other common mistakes, I will show you how to correct it.
  • incomplete sentences
    (missing S or V)
  • run-on sentences
    (bad FANBOYS)
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  • capitalization
  • MLA format problems
  • ​bad in-text citations
  • comma problems
  • possessives ('s or s')
  • colon (:) v. semicolon (;)
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