Angela,
While proofreading my book “Notes Toward A New Rhetoric” before submitting it to BookLocker, I had my Mac read the entire book out loud to me.
I don’t know whether a PC can do the reading aloud. On a Mac, it can be turned on under System Preferences=>Speech=>Text to Speech. They give you a variety of voices to choose from. I like Bruce and Veronica.
Donald Stewart
NOTES TOWARD A NEW RHETORIC: 9 Essays for Teachers
Writers dream of big things for themselves and their careers. When faced with rejection or roadblocks, however, some writers abandon their dreams. This doesn’t need to happen to you! If you want to make your dreams come true, you need to do what I did…
I had nothing to offer retail or business. My qualifications for anything were so old they pre-dated the Vic 20. Even the local greengrocer, looking for a check out person, had a state of the art LED cash register that I couldn’t begin to understand.
But I was starting again after a failed marriage and desperately needed a job. All I had was a folder full of clips from my years of freelance writing. Could that get me a job on a newspaper or magazine? My job counselor thought so…”
