The Abundance Of Proofreading Summary

Taylor Mali’s “The The Impotence of Proofreading” is a poem that catches the eye of the reader immediately from the title. Mali writes about the importance of proofreading in a very humorous way. He says even though you may have a spell-checker, proofreading is not to be forgotten. A spell-checker can fail to catch missing words, fail to catch wrong words that are spelled correctly, fail to catch words that are written more than once in succession, and a spell-checker might even replace a misspelled word incorrectly. Failing to proofread a paper can also sometimes get you into trouble because of the crude nature of the wrong word that was spelled right. Mali showcases the profane side of failing to proofread a paper. When reading Mali’s work,