Before and After Samples
Sample Blog Post Before Proofreading:
Bold parentheses contain the error or omission, added in the editing process. A corrected version is below.
What’s Worse Than Killing Hopes And Dreams?
Killing the desire to hope. (This is not a sentence.)
Killing the desire to dream. (This is not a sentence.)
Stomping on people’s dreams or hopes is terrible, but stomping on the energy that creates the hopes or dreams is much worse. (This error is called a comma splice.)
Praying on people’s fears and insecuritie’s and using them against people is a manipulation that can take down an entire society (This has improper punctuation.)
Using peoples’ feelings against them seems clever to the doer of evil, but the true loser is the evil one, who only becomes more evil in the process, and inevitably, weaker in the long run.
Take away hope and you take away humanity. (It is not a sentence and it has punctuation errors)
Take away dreams and you take away hope. You take away life. (These are not complete sentences.)
If you kill hopes and dreams or hopers and dreamers, you have no rights to rights, get out of the way of the good and the great. (This is a run-on sentence.)
If you do this and cannot stop yourself, get help and if there is no help, get yourself locked up, to protect society. It may be the most good that you are capable of, just to get yourself stopped.
Sample Blog Post After Proofreading:
What’s Worse Than Killing Hopes And Dreams?
Killing the desire to hope is evil.
Killing the desire to dream is cruel.
Stomping on peoples’ dreams or hopes is terrible; but, stomping on the energy that creates those hopes or dreams is much worse.
Preying on peoples’ fears and insecurities and using them against people is a manipulation that can take down an entire society.
Using peoples’ feelings against them seems clever to the doer of evil, but the true loser is the evil one, who only becomes more evil in the process, and inevitably, weaker in the long run.
If you take away hope, you take away humanity.
If you take away dreams and you take away hope, you take away life.
If you kill hopes and dreams or hopers and dreamers, you have no rights to rights, get out of the way of the good and the great.
If you do this and cannot stop yourself, get help and if there is no help, get yourself locked up, to protect society. It may be the most good that you are capable of, just to get yourself stopped.