Re: applet travail

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:51:53 GMT, "cpanon via JavaKB.com" <u13933@uwe>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

You have slipped on one of those many points in the list. Perhaps get
someone else to look it over. You have stared at it too long and you
know too strongly what you intended so you can't see what you actually
wrote.

If you have not got someone to help, do something to help the problem
go cold. Think about something else for a while then come back to it,
and hopefully you will have forgotten some of the details. They could
you can look at it with fresh eyes.

I see this effect all the time in proofreading. When I look at
something I wrote a few days or a months ago, the proofreading errors
leap out at me that were invisible just after I had composed it.

I sometimes write essays totally in my head when I go out walking,
then transcribe them when I get back. There are thus two kinds of
proofreading -- getting the grammar and words right in my head, and
making sure those words make it to paper undamaged.

The first process is ever so such more interesting than the second.
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