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FoxType. The Online Writing Community. Analyze My Writing. Browse Tropes. Townsend Press Learning Center. Proofreading Page. Proofreading Page Research and experience show that teaching grammar to native English speaking students simply does not work.

Proofreading Page

Students will focus too much on mechanical details to the detriment of content, they will forget what they are taught right after the class quiz or exam, or the teacher will be teaching various grammar elements to students who already know the element, wasting valuable class time. These same studies have shown that the only way to correct grammar problems and to teach students to proofread well is to find a way to integrate the learning of grammar into the writing process and to get you, the student, to take responsibility for learning the elements that you need to master and then proofread for them once you have learned how to do them correctly. Although the proofreading elements on this page are designed to be self-taught, they will be utterly useless if you try to rush through them.

WriterKata. In So Many Words, 15 books of graphical comics by Larry Paros. Error identification exercises, find error in English. Cliche Finder. Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use?

Cliche Finder

Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one? Just enter any words in the form below, and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase... Hemingway Editor.