Journal 8: "The Impotence of Proofreading"

Well, the video was pretty funny in my opinion. However, he did bring up a lot of good points. Many people today do not proofread their work, and people do make a lot of silly mistakes, especially on important documents such as college entrance exams and resumes. So, I found the video actually somewhat helpful. Because although it was humorous, the guy shows that many of the mistakes people make when writing papers or anything like that are easily avoidable. Because, spell check can be a wonderful thing, but it does not catch everything. Also, spell check can be incorrect sometimes as well. Spell check will make a sentence you wrote in an incorrect tense or something like that, that does not correlate with the rest of your paper. That is why proofreading is such a good thing. It prevents people from making stupid mistakes on important papers or documents, and making an absolute idiot of yourself. Because, I think that after you leave, the boss or whoever you were trying to impress will sit and laugh at your mistakes, if they were stupid ones. I have also heard that if there are misspellings on a resume or college entrance exam, the paper will either get thrown away and not even considered, or it will get moved to the very bottom of the pile. Which, can be quite unfortunate especially if you have worked hard on it. Therefore, proofreading is exceptionally important, no matter what. Because that way you can avoid stupid, comical mistakes, and you do not make a fool of yourself to important officials, or people you are trying to impress to get a good grade for something such as a teacher. If there is one miss placed comma or a space is forgotten, then the paper is not the best it can be, and all because people did not proofread their work, and made stupid mistakes. So, I am going to try and be a better proofreader now, to avoid the silly mistakes.