We Need To Talk About The Importance Of Proofreading Maybe it is the journalism major in me, maybe it is the fact that I am just so used to having my writing proofread, maybe it is just who I am as a person but grammar, punctuation and everything in-between is sacred to me. I think it just really comes from the fact that I want to be taken seriously and I know that having things spelled correctly and using proper grammar is a great way to do that. It is also because the embarrassment and/or pure shame I feel when I forget to proofread only to later find a mistake after too many people have seen it...I'm getting itchy just thinking about it.