Proofreading Part 4 - COMPLETE

Today, after I came back from college, I decided to have a look further into the work I’ve been proofreading recently and I found more sentences that make no sense and some words that have been auto corrected into wrong words. I did do change all the errors but I was really tired after college and Im not 100% sure if I noticed everything. Hopefully I did but I will have to take another look at the work sometime later. I also started proofreading a bit more since last post but Im still getting used to it. Hopefully it will be natural to me soon.

Proofreading Part 2 (and 3) - COMPLETE

Today, I followed my PDP and Proofread the work I found yesterday, It was hard to proofread all of it, since it is over 10 pages… so I only read the begginig. I didn’t find anything that I should’ve changed, atleast not significantly, but There was few sentences that didn’t make sense in the context I used them in. This might be cause by me having to move sentences around for the teacher when he was marking the work last semester.


Since I improved the work right after proofreading, I also completed Part 3 of improving my proofreading before the date I planed in my PDP so I guess I don't have to re-complete part 3.

Overall I did feel like I’ve improved my proofreading skills, but what I really need to get used to is proofreading the work right after I write it. This will help me find errors before submiting the work. It will take a while to get used to… Guess I could start by proofreading this post :)

Writing, Evaluation and Proofreading... Part 1 COMPLETE! (Almost)

Today I've completed part 1 of my Personal Development Plan for the following targets:

• Improving Writing
• Learning how to Evaluate my own work
• Being able to Proofread my own work.

Unfortunetly, I didn’t meet all my smart targets, but I did meet the Majority of them. Here is some explenation on each smart target:

Improving Writing

To improve my writing, I would have to write something, but because I really couldn’t come up with anything, I ended up not meeting this smart target. I was’nt that happy especially that this would affect my other smart targets for the day… Luckly I found an alternative that helped me with other smart targets…

Being able to Proofread my own work.

My last smart target for the day was to Write something or get essay that I’ve wrote already, and so I was thinking about writing sometihng, but then I got reminded that one of my teachers from college told me I should proofread my work. It was in privious semester but I thought this will be more of a ‘real life example’ instead of writing something random… I picked up my computer systems essay and decided I’ll proofread this work when it comes to it.

Learning how to Evaluate my own work

To learn how to evaluate my work, I set my first smart target to be “Do something that could be evaluated or take some of your current school work to evaluate”. Since I already picked up my work for proofreading, cause I coudlnt write a new one, I thought it will be smart idea to use exactly the same work as the one I used for proofreading, since this would co-operate with proofreading.

Summary

As you can see, I didn’t meet my “Improve Writing” smart target, but this was because I wasn;t creative at the time and I really didn’t know what to write. I think I migh t have another go at it sometime later. I still have a lot of time untill my PDP is due.