Glad I Caught This One!

12/15/2006

I’m finishing a giganto-paper for a final for grad school. Upon proofreading it, I caught a potentially deadly error. For one section, I repeatedly explain how someone can interpret a work of art in “four easy steps” and then elaborate about each of these “easy steps.”
Unfortunately, my repeated typo kept saying, “Students can interpret a work of art in four easy stephs. Using these stephs, they can come to a deeper understanding of how art has impacted people throughout time and cultures around the world…” And so on.
My favorite was the blaring subtitle on the student instructional guide that said, “Interpreting Art: In Four Easy Stephs!”
Wow. Glad I caught that one. Guess I’m just used to typing my name that it just kind of comes out like that after forty pages.