English Composition › Section O · The case study profile › Topic O.3
Editing focus: words often confused
A spell checker will happily accept "their" where you meant "there", because both are real words. Learning which words are easily confused, and a few quick tests for each, lets you catch the errors that software misses.
In this topic
- Why confused words slip through
- Homonyms and homographs
- Homophones
- Possessives versus contractions
- Affect and effect
- Ensure, insure and assure
- More near-misses
- Worked example: the expansion test
- Worked example: editing a paragraph
- Catching them in your draft
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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