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I've sent you to this page because you're trying to share something with me to proof and you didn't look at this page to find out how to do this or you did and just need to tweak things a little. That's no problem at all--my instructions are probably different than most other instructors' and it could take some time to adjust. 

If you wouldn't mind, please read this page and try to share your work with me, once again. I really, honestly want to help you succeed, but I need to do so in a manner that best allows me to do so as quickly and efficiently as possible, as I have other students to help and my own work to do (yeah, professors do more than just teach--who would have thunk it?).

Around 80% of the time, you've been redirected to this page for one of these reasons:

1. You've shared a document with me via Google Drive, but you simply uploaded your Word file into Google Drive and shared it with me wholesale. This is no different than attaching a document in an email for all practical purposes, so #1 from below kicks in. If you're going to use Google Drive, particularly Google Documents, upload your Word document into Drive, click on it and then use "Open in Google Docs" so that you actually convert it to Google Docs (and then share that version with with). Or you can start with a blank document from the beginning in GD or copy and paste it into a document you've created as a GD document.
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2. If you are in one of my in-person classes (so if you're not in an in-person class, skip this), you have tried to share a document with me for the very first time during the weekend before that document's due date (this only counts if the assignment has at least two weekends between the time it's assigned and the time it's due). In order to encourage my students to begin work early, it is my policy to only accept electronically-submitted proofs up until the last weekend before an assignment is due unless we've already been working on it before that weekend.
   
   In other words: If an assignment is due on Monday, the 31st (of whatever month), and you tried to send me your document for the very first time on Saturday, the 29th, this provision comes into effect.
   
   However, if we have been working on your document before the 28th, you may submit your document to me electronically on the 28th, 29th, and 30th.
   
   There is nothing you can do about this--please bring me your work in person. If we have been working on your assignment together and I sent you here, I might have sent you here for reasons #2 or #3 below, or I might have sent you this link in error. If we have been working together and reasons #2 or #3 directly below don't seem to make sense, please let me know that I've made a mistake.
   
   
3. You've tried to attach your document to me in an e-mail (see below). 
   
   
4. You've properly shared a document with me, but didn't give me the proper permissions I need in order to make comments.
   
   
5. You shared it with the wrong email address. Please use bmaproofmystuff@gmail.com.
   
   
6. You shared too much with me in the body of an email and need to share it with me using a shared document (see #3 below).
   
   

In short:

1. I don't accept attachments. Attachments just get out of control really, really quickly. They're everywhere, and I don't know which attachment is the latest, etc. Also, attachments are "old" technology. Use the Cloud and catch the wave. Using a shared/clouded document takes care of these types of "versioning" problems since there is only one version shared between us.
   
   
2. I'll only accept single paragraphs via e-mail. You must copy-and-paste your paragraph into the body of an e-mail message, however, and not send it to me as an attachment.
   
   
3. If you want me to electronically look at something longer than a paragraph, you'll have to share it with me as a Office Online, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Documents.