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1. The best part of going back to school is seeing all your friends. The worst part is that your teachers won't let you talk to them...

2. You need to edit your work.
3. Don`t just rely on spell check.
4. What will your co-workers think?
5. What are you trying to say?
6. This is why you must proofread your resumé.
7. Even if you are self employed, proofreading is important.
8. Is spelling important? My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P. E. today. Please execute him.
9. Is grammar important? "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000 This was said by the President of the United States. Does that affect your perception of him?
10. What if you were to get a tattoo?
11. Trust me, you need to always check your work…
12. Ode to my spell checker… Eye halve a spelling checker It came with my pea sea. It plainly marks four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word and weight for it to say Weather eye yam wrong oar write. It shows me strait a weigh as soon as a mist ache is maid. It nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite. Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it, I am shore your pleased to no. Its letter perfect awl the way. My checker told me sew.
13. In case you are not convinced that reviewing your work is important… This is what spell check can not do… 1. Spell check cannot help you with some proper names, such as Heston or Jolie. 2. Spell check will not detect the improper use of homonyms, such as their and there. 3. Spell check may flag words as errors which are indeed correct. 4. Spell check does not always offer useful spelling suggestions for severely misspelled words.
14. So before you let anyone else read your work,