No help needed, no mommy and daddy proofreading, no professional tutors just me and my own devices.

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Mom, who used to work as an editor at Yale University Press, offered advice about everything from proofreading to distribution.

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Some publishing houses have trimmed back even further, limiting editorial assistance to new writers to proofreading and line editing rather than structural editing.

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And proofreading is perhaps the least important purpose of copy editing.

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He hypothesizes that the slip-up in "Mother Goose, " which is actually one of Ravel's simpler scores in terms of harmony and orchestration, was a proofreading lapse on the composer's part.

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But before I hit the button to send my editors every column, I print out a copy and do the editing and proofreading by hand, on sheets of paper, with a pen.

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Liz returns to the living room with Fran, whose gray streak, she learns, is natural and who works at home during school hours, copy editing and proofreading documents for a legal firm.

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The editing and proofreading have improved since.

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In the booths at Jerry's 103 on Second Avenue, you met graffiti artists, studio artists and introverted writers who had daytime proofreading jobs and drove cabs at night and weird geeks who were screwing around with laser discs and sound mixers.

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