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Quality and Errors

 On the subject of errors and quality, lets look at books and the errors that are almost always present in them.  I have just finished a 210 page book on the history of an old road in Michigan and have put it through a pretty tough regimen of proofing, but I know that there are still some errors---but the problem is I don't know where to look.  So why do I know there are errors yet I don't know where to look?  Because one can not find every last error by inspection.  There are classroom exercises that demonstrate that a whole group of students, working independently, that fail to find every error.  Error free writing can only be accomplished by the writers ability to write error free text--in other words, error free writing has to be accomplished by the process of writing and not by the process of inspection. Oh, but you say, how do we do that, meaning, what is the process of writing? Avoiding errors in written material is important simply because any reade...