http://66.40.35.24/a/uploads/AQS2ndProofre...st-20060412.zip
Proofreader/QCer Test

Post here to sign up as a student. I'll think up of some lessons once we get some people. If you already have some specific questions in mind, make a new thread and our proofreading team will answer or maybe some other person will help you

@other proofreaders: mind helping me with some lesson ideas?

EDIT: Signing up doesn't make it compelling to come every time. There won't be a lesson like every week or anything like that. There won't really be any homework either...This thread is basically to say you're interested in learning some things.

I'm not a proofreader, but perhaps something explaining its/it's and similar items.

I'll lend a hand to lambchopsil. Just drop me any Q and I'll do my best on making a satisfying answer.

Lesson Plans? Hmm... that's pretty tough... How about the most usual changes in a raw script first?

Mark me as interested, though times do vary, with regards to what I can put in... but that's why portable computers were invented. :D

Still, I'd probably suggest a quick rundown on grammar, or at least on how to proofread based on context - which is one of the main ways one determines where the use of "it's" is correct, and "its" is not, and vice versa. Also, maybe a lesson on how to write notes addressing issues of this sort? Just saying 'Negi should've said "This ends here" instead of "This end here' is not as helpful as 'On page 18, Panel 5 where Negi stands in the heroic pose, the second word-bubble has "This end here" - shouldn't this be "This ends here"?'

Yeah, a good place to start would be the usage of apostrophes, the most whored out punctuation mark since the exclamation mark was introduced to online gaming.

There is no apostrophe in plural forms of words, idiots. Some people just can't seem to grasp that (I'm looking at YOU, M_V).

i hereby sollemnly swear that i want to be a professional proofreader but only for the [AQS] team

i hereby give [AQS] my soul, i hope you will put it to bad use

p.s. i am serious, i don't try to make fun of you all

p.s.s. this is not a joke, got it thank you

I swear too...but not as formally ^.^

Aite Ill try. I got nothing better to do right now.

I'm in. Gotta practice on those SAT skills somehow...

I'll join because I need to spend my time to learn how to write

id like to be a student.

I'll help if there is a question (especially if i'm already a proofreader) :P

This seems fun.

Everyone needs to learn some proper grammar, even on the internet. :)

I'd be interested in attending this proof reading school. Spent three years doing this under the guise of layout editor for my Highschool's newspaper and yearbook, so I guess it can't be that bad.

I guess I'll help out too. And, I learned from my mistakes with my previous test, so I feel that I'll be able to help out here and better.

Hmmm... I might as well. It seems like it might be fun/worthwhile. I'll help whenever I can, which should be relatively often. I'm a nitpicker when it comes to grammar/word usage/spelling, etc.

Actually, check our main site for something that might interest you (Posted today)

pretty big file for a test... Lets see...

I shood sine up eeven thoh I don kneed it, but seriously i will sign up for the class and I might even help out with it too.

Well, if you want to help out, make a lesson...

Do I need to pass it by you first or can I just post it?

Just post it. I'll just look at it and edit it if I have to.

Im signing in for lessons I will try my best

You have anything specific you want to learn?

I'm in, but I don't know what the heck I should be.

what to learn? well general stuff

General stuff?...Then look in the other threads of this forum. There's about 8 lessons so far. As for more...you'll have to ask specific things. I don't do "general." Or, pm me on MSN, AIM, or IRC.

I guess I'll join too! Seems fun, hopefully :) :D B)

Sign me up!
I have extremely good grammar, and I could already see some mistakes in some of the scanlated chapters of Negima...

Hmmm ... should that be:
... and I can already see ... :)

Not necessarily, since I'm talking about the past tense....

Unless your'e pulling my leg, and saying that there will be mistakes if I become a proofreader...

Aw great, youv'e confused me!

Revised sentence:

I have extremely good grammar, and I already saw some mistakes in some of the scanlated chapters of Negima...


Yay....


And I'm halfway through the test....I have a feeling that that thing was typed on purpose....No single person, let alone a group would be able to make that much grammar mistakes in a single chapter....

foots......And exclamatory sentences ended with question marks.... And the words "also" and "too" in the same sentence....

That test scares me....

Like capitalization and punctuation? Oh joy!

Learning how to read is serious business.

I am very interesting in this too so hope it is okay if I join in at times too?

Yeah. Post in the thread with the poll in it.

I can help. One very important topic is subject-verb agreement... Many people get this wrong.

Ok then...I will sign up to become a proofreading student. :)

(*SHF signs up) :)

...still sign upable? If so, i'll think about it.

I want to sign up...Can I yet?

I started doing the proofreaders test and what not to see if I could do it. By the time I got to page 5, I was already sick of reading something with so many obvious mistakes. No offense. It just sickens me to have to read that. I would hope when it's first translated that it would be more fluent and less BLARRGH!!! all over the pages. I can't handle that and I greatly pity/respect anyone who can on a weekly basis.