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What Your Eye Fills In
The gap you cannot see, and the same gap read backwards.
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The gap was always there. Only the second reader can see it.
Learner finds faults in text they wrote themselves, using techniques that defeat reading-what-you-meant.
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The problem, three techniques, and the over-editing warning.
Your eye supplies the article you left out and the full stop you forgot.
Your brain already knows what the sentence was meant to say.
This is not carelessness, and trying harder does not fix it.
The gap you cannot see, and the same gap read backwards.
The gap was always there. Only the second reader can see it.
Write it. Nothing is corrected here — you get a count only.
Prompt: some people think university should be free for everyone. Others say students should pay.
Write one body paragraph of about 80 words.
Do not check it before you send it. That is deliberate.
You will be told how many faults there are in each category — and nothing about where they are. Keep this paragraph; you will correct it yourself later in the sprint.
Unchecked, on purpose.
The technique, worked, then applied to what you just wrote.
A paragraph, read in reverse order:
…so they take a room in a shared flat.
A rent in the centre is high.
Many student comes here in September.
Without the story pulling you forward, a rent and many student both stand out.
A first-person paragraph. Ten faults, two traps.
When I moved to this city I had almost (1) no money. (2) I look for a cheap room for three weeks. (3) the agency wanted a deposit of two months' rent. (4) I did not have that kind of a money. (5) My cousin lent me half and (6) my brother lends me the rest. (7) the room was small, it had no window at all. (8) I stayed there for (9) a year. (10) Now I earn enough to choose, but (11) those three weeks taught me more about the city than (12) a year of reading about it.
Both versions, and a list of what you changed.
Go back to the paragraph you wrote at the start of this sprint.
Read it backwards, then run the four passes.
Box 1: paste the original, then the corrected version below it. Box 2: list what you changed, and name the question that caught each one.
Both versions, labelled.
One per line.
Same category as last time, or a different one?