Learning From Errors: The Importance of Proofreading

... I will also be expressing myself more instead of holding back information that is necessary to make my writing superb. Some research has suggested that cultivating this kind of active reflection on proofreading strategies results in improvements in students' technical proficiency (Abbott, 2016;Turbill, 2000), but the present study found only a minor effect on student outcomes. It is notable that this is the first group that consistently reduced their average g-score from the first to the third assignment, but the shape of the data remains consistent. ...