How to Use Proofreading Marks
You may believe that you wrote a masterpiece, but then when your essay gets graded and you find a bunch of weird symbols made in haste by an overzealous English Composition professor. Many of these symbols kind of look like cave drawings, but they’re actually proofreading marks and there are lots of them. This chart tells you what they mean and how they are used to figure out what the teacher or professor wants you to fix.