One issue is that a lot depends on how you read. Reading your paper out loud has a lot of benefits, but it presents a few challenges, too. What are some strategies for reading out loud? Does it sound too formal? Too chatty or casual? What kind of impression will your voice in this paper make on a reader? Sometimes hearing your words helps you get a more objective sense of the impression you are creating-listening puts in you in something more like the position your reader will be in as he/she moves through your text. Hearing your paper can also help you get a sense of whether the tone is right. Problems like these are often easily heard. Sometimes sentences aren’t grammatically incorrect, but they are still awkward in some way-too long, too convoluted, too repetitive. For native speakers of English (and some non-native speakers, too), reading out loud is one of the most powerful proofreading techniques around. These kinds of errors can be hard to see on the page, but sentences that contain them are very likely to sound wrong. Sometimes we leave out a word, mess things up as we copy and paste text, or make a grammatical mistake. You may also hear errors in your sentences.
When you hear your paper, you may recognize places where you have moved from one topic to another too abruptly. Listeners also need transitions to help us get from one main idea to the next. When you hear your paper read out loud, you may recognize that you need to re-order the information in it or realize that there are gaps in your explanation.
We can’t flip back and forth from page to page to try to figure out what is going on or find information we need. When you read your draft out loud or listen to someone else read it, your brain gets the information in a new way, and you may notice things that you didn’t see before.Īs listeners, we need the order of ideas in a paper to make sense. Most people have far more experience listening to and speaking English than they do reading and editing it on the printed page. If you come to the Writing Center for a tutoring session, you will probably hear your tutor say, “We always read papers out loud-would you like to read yours, or would you like to hear me read it?” Reading aloud has many benefits that we want to share with writers. It offers tips on reading your draft yourself, asking a friend to read it to you, or having it read by a text-to-speech program or app. This handout explains some of the benefits of hearing your writing read aloud.
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