Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
My name is Rosanna Stopyra, and I am the Proofreading Rose. Yes, I’m one of those people who mentally proofreads everything I see. A lifetime love of reading (fantasy and rewritten fairy tales are my favorites!) has given me a deep love of words and a desire to see them written well. Though an Early Childhood Educator by degree, I have been proofreading and copyediting for my father, a doctor, researcher, and biomedical engineer, for twenty years. And, since I was already doing that, I proofread my brother’s power engineering college papers and my husband’s business management college papers, too. And whatever anyone else in my life would hand me and ask, “How does this look?”
Grammar and punctuation are like body language for writing. Missing commas can sometimes be as bad as rolling your eyes at your grandmother.
So, let’s work together to make your writing dressed to the nines and on its most proper behavior, ready to put its best foot forward for the world to enjoy (and make Grandma smile!).