Once settled on a process that picks up spelling and grammar errors easily, concentrate on their proofreading speed. Often authors find themselves consistently misspelling the same words or repeating the same consecutively making a sentence seem boring and bland. Repeated misspellings come from a mental block or the word is not well known, they also come from the authors typing skill. By understanding the nature and reason for frequent errors and finding the most misspelled and repeated words, a writer will learn to take extra care not to use them so often. Authors should pace themselves by evaluating each sentence alone, consciously going through the spelling, grammar and structure.

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