<table class="s_table s_table_border"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>A Reading Test for you:</strong></span> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.</span></p> </blockquote> </td> <td style="padding-left: 30px;"> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Check out the jibberish on the left. Can you read it? Supposedly only 55 out of 100 people can read it. I don't believe that's right.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Try to read it.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It's kind of a trick. But please don't "trick" your reader with hard to read poorly spelled words! Check your writing. Have someone else check it.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A great use of technology is to type what you want to write. Spell check should help you with quite a few words.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Another way to catch mistakes is to read your writing aloud. Many times you will find goofy mistakes you made that you can fix without any help. For example, while I was typing this page, I accidentally typed "wnat" instead of "want." I caught it when I looked over my writing before using spell check.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>