'read back and forth' is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is usually used to refer to reading something multiple times as a way of checking one's work. For example: "I read back and forth through my essay to make sure I had caught all of my spelling mistakes."
I like her for it, but am not persuaded when I read back and forth in the philosopher's copious pages and encounter his icy sublimity.
It takes a while to figure out that the letters P N U U M L D E -- alternately painted black and gray and diminishing in height toward the middle -- resolve into the word "pendulum" when you read back and forth one letter at a time from outside to inside.
Read Back and Forth, his ongoing web comic.
For Ford followers, it's good stuff indeed to read the back-and forth between Joe Hinrichs and now-former UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, meetings in clandestine offices and horse-trading.
They claim to argue about liberalism and the ol' G.W.O.T., but we read their back-and-forths as a pissing match between two talented sophists.
Q: (Reader) I've read the back-and-forth on wedding rings with interest, as I spent 26 years in account management on the agency side.
Since it is a series of letters, we read it back and forth repeatedly: "M, as in mother; E as in elephant, B as in boy" — eight little alphabet games in all.
I am not surprised to read this back and forth because now being a single mother of twin boys that I wanted badly enough to pursue IVF to have with my former husband, while being a VP of a very large company.
You can read the entire back-and-forth here.
She and the cousin tried to decipher it like one might a code, reading passages back and forth.
I'm not even reading the back and forth at this point — it's too embarrassing — but if you're interested, Matt O'Brien sums it up.
