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Peer reviewedDaneman, Meredyth; Stainton, Murray – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1993
Finds that subjects were less able to detect errors in self-generated essays than in unfamiliar other-generated essays but were better able to detect errors in familiar other-generated essays than in unfamiliar ones. Finds also that the disadvantage for proofreading self-generated text is a by-product of extreme familiarity. (RS)
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Proofreading, Reading
