Subject to correction

I ended the last article by encouraging students to copy-edit their work before submission. And this goes for lots of other kinds of writing—official documents, advertisements of items or services for sale, love letters (boy, you don’t want to get those wrong. Don’t let slip through a line such as “I want you to be my awful wedded wife.”) It is, however, difficult to copy-edit one’s own writing, because, once written, the stuff is so familiar it just slips past the eye as one checks it. With me, I try to finish my work before deadline, so I have at …