Spoofing and Proofing the Classics: Literature-Based Activities to Develop Critical Reading Skills and Grammatical Knowledge

摘要

Errors in spelling, malapropisms, mis-use of homonyms, typos and grammatical errors. Not forgetting of course punctuation - missing commas, missing apostrophes, capitalization, incorrect use of verbs, pronouns, prepositions - as well as sentence combining and paragraph sequencing. All of these are elements of written work that proofreaders and editors are trained to notice and amend before a piece of work is committed to publication. This work could be anything from a company report to a newspaper article or even a book. Whatever the piece of work there are many trained proofreaders and copy-editors who spend time meticulously checking through for any number of possible errors. These people are highly trained and have developed their skills after a considerable amount of practice (I know). But how many times are the common errors made by children in their school work acknowledged and corrected?