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For various important reasons, many students submit their work only at the very last minute of the deadline. That means mistakes are inevitable. After all, working against the clock demands sacrifices.
Proofreading is often the most popular offering to the gods of fortune. On the surface, it looks reasonable, too. How important is grammar when tables need to be filled with important data? Turns out, very.
Not only do students misspell a word here and there, but they leave in entire phrases they typed to themselves in a moment of despair or they forget that the name of the text file is so dirty, it sounds like something Eric Cartman would say. To remind everyone to go through their papers one more time before you click 'Send', Bored Panda has compiled a list of some of the most unfortunate proofreading fails ever, so sit back, scroll down, and enjoy.
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Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
A good teacher would just laugh and be relieved to read something new.
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Isa 5 years ago
I think that is Epic...most introductions are boring...guess what? Yours is not!
danielw 5 years ago
definitely sets the stage. I wanna read the rest of the paper.
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ElusiveIntrovert 5 years ago
After reading this intro, I would be tempted to read those 8 pages but if I was a professor, naaah.
If you want to get better at proofreading your works, experts advise starting by getting some distance from the text. It can be hard to edit or proofread a paper that you’ve just finished. It's still very familiar, and you tend to skip over a lot of errors. Put the paper aside at least for a few hours and go for a walk or something. Point is, clear your head of what you’ve written so you can take a fresh look at the paper and see what is really on the page.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
We should be told how the student succeeded in emailing, given they didn't know Whatshisface's name.
Henry Russell 4 years ago
also if you look in one of the assignments the post date is after the due date
Next, decide which medium lets you proofread most carefully. Some people like to do it right at the computer, while others like to make a printed copy that they can mark up as they read. If you choose the former, at least try changing the look of your document. Altering the size, spacing, color, or style of the text can actually trick your brain into thinking it's seeing an unfamiliar document.
Find a quiet place to go through the text. Don't proofread in front of the TV or while you're chugging away on the treadmill. Find a place where you can actually concentrate and avoid distractions. This job requires focus.
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Night Owl 5 years ago
Yeah "Here are some tips how to improve your mood that I think could be useful for you" and than the YouTube link to the video :D
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If possible, do your editing and proofreading in several short blocks of time, too. As with all mental work, your concentration may start to wane if you try to proofread the entire text at one time.
But if you're short on time, try to prioritize. Make sure that you complete the most important editing and proofreading task first.
Good luck, hope your papers don't end up in our future posts!
#4
Adam Roades 5 years ago
"Dry Campus, Thirsty Students" might have passed completely unnoticed...
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
100% true, since when would Prohibition work on a body of students?
danielw 5 years ago
I wonder, what age is it normal to discover alchohol? Probably fifth grade. Then you get into DARE or whatever anti-drugs program and find out about all the cool s**t to try.
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Sinkvenice 5 years ago
It's 'by accident', not 'on accident'. I keep seeing this more and more, mainly Americans saying it. It makes no sense, it's infuriating.
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Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago (edited)
So, I guess Mr. Parker is a 'Bros over Hos' kinda guy....
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JustAWeirdoGirlChild 5 years ago
had to look those up, they are both cheat codes for doom
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True Blue 5 years ago
At the top it says "Criminal law" and it's about anime betrayals I can't... xD
#10
BorPand8 5 years ago
Was that "someone" who played a cruel joke the one who actually wrote the paper?
StinkyMonkey 5 years ago
Siblings do s**t like this. My brother changed a number of words to 'a**s' in a Spanish essay I was writing while I was on the toilet. He did not count on my excessive proofreading. We had one household computer and could not afford laptops so I couldn't exact password protect it. This reeks of sibling prankage.
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True Blue 5 years ago
"Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth" That makes no sense but also Hahahaha
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
Our very conservative English as a Second Language teacher emailed the whole school about a special program about exotic fruits. She sent it out & went straight to lunch. I tried to catch her & let her know that she advertised it as a seminar on "erotic" fruits.
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
I had to read this for 6th grade! Why does this person get it in high school?
Douglas Campbell 5 years ago
The title would have been appreciated by most, if not all, of my university English professors.
Alsoomse Catori 5 years ago
"The subtle art of bot giving a f***" is a book by Mark Manson ....you sure you were original in your paper? That's a serious thing, dont make it a habit. #truthpanda
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Scyth 5 years ago
Is that a class in school or college? If it's in college, why did you take it?
キミ 5 years ago
We don't always get to chose our classes. In France for many degree you have your classes already chosen and it never change ^^. I'm studying languages and I only get to chose my minor (two choices) and for my two languages all classes are already chosen. I know it's the same for many bachelors in the country. So every year we just pray to like it haha. Otherwise we're stucked with it for a year or sometimes for the all degree !
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Charlotte Stewart 5 years ago
Yeah, you won't get many points off for that. Save it for last, and only change it if you have time.
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Wolfstar 5 years ago (edited)
That's the best title ever lmaooo. If I was a teacher, I'd be like "TEN-THOUSAND POINTS TO GRYFFINDOORRR" (or whatever mother-truckin house you're in)
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Gerrit 5 years ago
I sometimes misspell my name when signing birthday cards. But only birthday cards. Isn't that weird?!
Vanta Black 5 years ago
How hard is it to spell Garret? Gerry... Gerrit... dammit...
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Roy Phillips 5 years ago (edited)
I've always heard you can' misspell your name, that whatever version you choose to use is correct. I would have pointed that out and demanded those points taken off be put right back where they were! But I'm a smart ass. On Jeopardy recently, a player was notified a question he'd given at almost at the beginning of Double Jeopardy had been ruled unacceptable, and a considerable amount of money was deducted from his score. IMHO, if you don't get it right before Final Jeopardy, you shouldn't be able to take it out of your total at the very end. I then thought if that had been me, when questioning the Final Jeopardy answer, I would have changed my bet to 0, then wrote down. No answer. Afraid you'd look me up a few years later, and tell me you decided my answer was wrong, and demand part of my prize money back.
Parmeisan 5 years ago
Yeah, but we don't know what it was out of. Could be 20%... Also even if it's 1% it's still embarrassing.
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#17
Olof T 5 years ago
In what state is it illegal to remove weed from your lawn? ;)
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Danieletc 5 years ago
More worrisome is the clunky first sentence and she should have started the second sentence with "There" or "The".
#18
blubfisher 5 years ago
its a novel. It's not that long compared to a lot of other novels I've seen.
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Sinkvenice 5 years ago
Summit a novel? She's supposed to be an author, which is worrying. Unless it's a typo.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
When in doughnut always go with a typo or auto-correct/complete.
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David Martin 5 years ago
I approve of this being "lol rip my chances of going to college 2", implying this is a trend
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Kind of an accurate description of Medusa, only she had more than two d***s...sorry, snakes coming out of her head.
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Vanta Black 5 years ago
If it's of their entire school life, nothing. If it's of the semester, probably a lot.
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semelina pitrone 5 years ago
they don't bleep that, but they bleeped c**n?
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Capelli rosa e patate 5 years ago
COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE MOTHER F-ING DAY 😂 oh lord I’m ashamed I know that.
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MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 5 years ago
This another level of stupid how can you not even notice while choosing the file?!
Monday 5 years ago
Tired, distracted and relieved to just be done. It's a lot easier than you might think.
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Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago (edited)
Um, is that a command, or a suggestion? I'm open-minded...
StinkyMonkey 5 years ago
We had strict rules for assignment titles luckily, so everyone always triple checked.
Alesha Vance 5 years ago
I'm just now realizing they can see the name on the file I drop. I did 3 years without this information and I'm horrified by my titles!
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
Update: the OP has an online presence in the adult entertainment world, and that is why the file name was probably an oversight from another file or format. I did my research...
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
This reminded me of "May he poop on my knee, may he poop on my knee, kitty all go see, much a finny-D, would you mustard my hole with a genie babe?" :>
Alesha Vance 5 years ago
I always thought it would just give the name of the person sending it 🤷♀️
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David Buchanan 5 years ago
Why the hell would you save a paper on your own computer with a title like that? What is the matter with you?
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Olivia Agave 5 years ago
I have dyslexia, ad I had to submit my presentation notes. Now usually I remember to change them into "acceptable for submission" fonts instead of the adapted stuff I use for ease of reading. Well, on time I forgot. That is the story of how I submitted my dissertation idea presentation notes in 24pt Comic Sans.
Olivia Agave 5 years ago
(For the note - my lecturer was fully aware of my dyslexia and understood why my notes were like that, he appaently giggled briefly but accepted it with no issue and didn't drop marks for it. He also allowed my dissertation to be fully written and submitted in a dyslexia-friendly font)
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Cat 5 years ago
While I enjoyed the thread, I'm genuinely confused by how any of them could have happened. I've written too many papers than I care to count through high school, university and graduate school, and now reports for work, and never once have I committed such crimes. I very much intend to keep it that way lol
WhiteFluff 5 years ago
same...I wonder how this can happen... and why anyone would bother with such titles instead of a blank space or smth like "Title" or "Version2" or idk... XD at least that's what I'm doing and literally everyone ik^^
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Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
You live,you learn. If I type down something that has to be fixed before submitting, I put it in bold red or something like that. And I don't type in anything that might hurt someones feelings, just beacause I KNOW my stupid a*s will forget to fix something. But thanks, I got a good laugh out of these. I especially love Professor whats-his-nuts.
Kimberley McMillan 5 years ago
Granted, I went to university before submitting papers online was a thing... but this never happened to me. Ever. Wouldn't have even occurred to me to use filler titles or the like...
glowworm2 5 years ago
I actually corrected this beforehand, but I remember once in class in high school working on a paper, and I accidentally spelled "dictator" as "dicktator." I had a good laugh and immediately corrected it.
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago (edited)
As a child raised with some German in an American household, I made some errors in my youth, too. Diktat, Afrika, kap, sond, werk, stadt....almost the same in American English. Still, I recall my middle school teacher marking me down. -Dr M
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Petra Schaap 5 years ago
not in a paper, but at my old work a co worker subtitled the picture of some bird with "poopface" in a brochure.
Eliana Hailu 5 years ago (edited)
This just reminded me that a few days ago I wrote "don't give up" and "YOU BETTER NOT" at the top of my page for motivation and submitted it without deleting it.
Israel Martinez 5 years ago
I'm glad this didn't happen to my daughter when she submitted her essay on why "Gods are D***s" ...
Olivia Agave 5 years ago
I have dyslexia, ad I had to submit my presentation notes. Now usually I remember to change them into "acceptable for submission" fonts instead of the adapted stuff I use for ease of reading. Well, on time I forgot. That is the story of how I submitted my dissertation idea presentation notes in 24pt Comic Sans.
Olivia Agave 5 years ago
(For the note - my lecturer was fully aware of my dyslexia and understood why my notes were like that, he appaently giggled briefly but accepted it with no issue and didn't drop marks for it. He also allowed my dissertation to be fully written and submitted in a dyslexia-friendly font)
Load More Replies... Cat 5 years ago
While I enjoyed the thread, I'm genuinely confused by how any of them could have happened. I've written too many papers than I care to count through high school, university and graduate school, and now reports for work, and never once have I committed such crimes. I very much intend to keep it that way lol
WhiteFluff 5 years ago
same...I wonder how this can happen... and why anyone would bother with such titles instead of a blank space or smth like "Title" or "Version2" or idk... XD at least that's what I'm doing and literally everyone ik^^
Load More Replies... Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
You live,you learn. If I type down something that has to be fixed before submitting, I put it in bold red or something like that. And I don't type in anything that might hurt someones feelings, just beacause I KNOW my stupid a*s will forget to fix something. But thanks, I got a good laugh out of these. I especially love Professor whats-his-nuts.
Kimberley McMillan 5 years ago
Granted, I went to university before submitting papers online was a thing... but this never happened to me. Ever. Wouldn't have even occurred to me to use filler titles or the like...
glowworm2 5 years ago
I actually corrected this beforehand, but I remember once in class in high school working on a paper, and I accidentally spelled "dictator" as "dicktator." I had a good laugh and immediately corrected it.
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago (edited)
As a child raised with some German in an American household, I made some errors in my youth, too. Diktat, Afrika, kap, sond, werk, stadt....almost the same in American English. Still, I recall my middle school teacher marking me down. -Dr M
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 5 years ago
not in a paper, but at my old work a co worker subtitled the picture of some bird with "poopface" in a brochure.
Eliana Hailu 5 years ago (edited)
This just reminded me that a few days ago I wrote "don't give up" and "YOU BETTER NOT" at the top of my page for motivation and submitted it without deleting it.
Israel Martinez 5 years ago
I'm glad this didn't happen to my daughter when she submitted her essay on why "Gods are D***s" ...
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