Evlyn impacted me.
Evlyn affected me.
When proofreading, you search for overlooked errors, such as spacing, font, spelling, and number inconsistencies. Here you pick up the spelling error Evlyn:
Evelyn affected me.
AI ensures you spell, capitalize, and punctuate properly. You can also count on AI to make every sentence comply with standard grammar rules. Your typos now are less tolerable since you have AI to run a quick check for you before pressing send.
But beware! AI loses its effectiveness for various reasons, some programmatic and some bandwidth. I recently prompted it to "Proofread only for overlooked errors without changing the content" of a third draft that AI and I collaborated on. It responded that the draft was error-free yet reverted to an earlier draft. Clearly, AI and I have a different definition of proofread. Also, it might have been suffering from information overload because of the multiple drafts we covered. In addition, here are four proofreading points it did not detect:
- Repetitive phrasing. One of my sentences read Effective immediately, a one-year lease a $90 per square foot is available immediately. AI did not report the repetitive opening and closing phrases.
- Spelling inconsistencies. I mistakenly included alternate spellings of smartboard and smart board in the same document, which AI did not call out.
- Number-letter spacing. I inserted a phone number without a space on either side of two words, at732-718-3361to, which AI ignored.
- Spacing inconsistencies. I drop only one space after a period, but I inadvertently double spaced after one sentence in a document of about 20 sentences. While I do well at revising and editing, proofreading is my biggest weakness in the quality control phase of the writing process. Luckily, I saw this error, which AI overlooked.
Once again, the theme of this series has been not to get lazy. The final look of your draft is on you, not AI.
