However,
despite all its frailties, it's critical to use a spellcheck for e-mails,
articles, and, in particular, manuscripts. Why wouldn't you take advantage of
that? It's like doing complicated math in your head instead of pushing a few
buttons on a calculator. I may know how to do a square root, but if a machine
can do it for me and I know that it will be accurate, I would be foolish not to
take advantage of the wonders of the 21st century.
The
spellcheck is nothing like a calculator because it doesn’t have a 100% accuracy
rate if you pump in all the right numbers like a calculator. But spellcheck
will recognize a large number of misspelled words and flag all kinds of
grammatical problems.
If you are
writing a manuscript and submitting it to an editor, the editor determines his
or her price estimate for your project based on how many hours the project will
take. And if it's not spellchecked, it will take a lot longer to do than a manuscript
that has been checked. Deliver a clean product. Enable the automatic spell-checking
on your e-mail program and always push F7 when you finish an article or
manuscript. It really makes a difference.
Sigrid
Macdonald
Author of Be
Your Own Editor
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