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2. Grammar checker - Wikipedia

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   One can write a somewhat complete formal grammar for a natural language, but there are usually so many exceptions in real usage that a formal grammar is of minimal help in writing a grammar checker. One of the most important parts of a natural language grammar checker is a dictionary of all the words in the language, along with the part of ...

3. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   BSI proof-correction marks (conforming to BS 5261C:2005) as prepared by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading; The style guide for publications of the European Union is presented in 24 European languages and includes a section on proofreading. Each edition has a sheet of proofreader's marks that appears to be the same apart from ...

4. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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   After preparing a document, a user scanned the text looking for misspellings. Later, however, batch processing was offered in such packages as Oracle 's short-lived CoAuthor and allowed a user to view the results after a document was processed and correct only the words that were known to be wrong.

5. LanguageTool - Wikipedia

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   Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file

6. Proofreading - Wikipedia

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   Thus, proofreading and editing are fundamentally separate responsibilities. In contrast to proofreaders, copy editors focus on a sentence-by-sentence analysis of the text to "clean it up" by improving grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and structure. The copy editor is usually the last editor an author will work with.

7. Blue pencil (editing) - Wikipedia

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   An editor-in-chief would use a blue colored pencil to make proofreading marks and final notes on manuscripts before sending it to be typeset and published. [4] [5] The pencils and their blue excisions became associated with the editing process and editorial oversight. [6] [7] Of course it takes skill to be a poet! But an editor?

8. Wikipedia:Did you know/Proofreading - Wikipedia

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   If you find proofreading mistakes at Template talk:Did you know, first decide if your change is big, little, or in between. In general, changing a couple words without changing the intended meaning is a little change. If an entry sounds as if English isn't the author's native language, then changing several words can be considered "little".

9. Caret (proofreading) - Wikipedia

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   The caret was originally and continues to be used in handwritten form as a proofreading mark to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. [1] The term comes from the Latin word caret, "it lacks", from carēre, "to lack; to be separated from; to be free from". [2]