He went on to establish the fact-checking department and acted as chief proofreader at the copy desk.
Both scopists and proofreaders work closely with the court reporter to ensure an accurate transcript.
As a young man, he worked as a barber, salesman, clerk in a print shop and as a proofreader of newspaper articles and books.
Informal employee-testing takes place whenever a manager feels the need to take a random sampling of a proofreader's work by double-reading selected pages.
It may be that they are short of proofreaders or other skilled staff.
The writer and his habits, the editor, the critic, the public school teacher, the clerk in the government office, the proofreader, and the printer all fight against purifying the language.
Textbook publishers might consider employing dyslexic proofreaders to reinsert some of the inevitable typographical errors so carefully removed by textbook writers.
By contrast, a human proofreader, using linguistic and world knowledge, will usually notice an error of this kind because it will cause the text to be set somehow awry.
