Our brains are hard-wired to make mistakes, Craig Silverman writes at Poynter, and that's why copyeditors are necessary — to protect writers from the errors that our brains inevitably make — or miss — as we write: "Editors often talk about coming at a piece of text with “fresh eyes” in order to see things in a different way. What this means … is that we have to hack our brains in order to get past innate blind spots and re-orient towards spotting mistakes."
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