College students struggling to write the perfect paper often turn to friends or parents for help in correcting everything from punctuation to syntax errors to misspellings.
Chances are, however, that unless Mom and Dad are working for The Washington Post, some things are going to fall through the cracks, and junior may be less than thrilled with his final grade.
Students have another resource for help polishing those all-important essays: online editorial services like Scribendi.com.
“It’s important to have someone check your work before you hand it in,” says Chandra Clarke, a director of Scribendi.com. “Especially if you’ve been working on it in the wee hours of the morning, as students often do.”
A variety of research supports the need for an objective set of eyes to critique writing and fix errors. A study by Meredyth Daneman and Murray Stainton of the University of Toronto tested whether proofreading one’s own writing is harder than proofreading someone else’s.
Subjects spent 30 minutes writing an essay, then proofread their own papers as well as those written by others. The results showed...
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