Proofreading tips and technique
Today's guest blogger, Brian Carey, wants you to take one more look at your writing.
After an essay or other written work has been done and completed, checking to ensure it’s in the best condition follows. Proofreading work saves a lot of time and ensures that your work doesn’t go in vein. Proofing software is not efficient. This leaves your open option as the manual way. Here are some tips for you:
1. Concentration
You need to concentrate on your work if you intend to catch the small mistakes. And to do this, you need to rid yourself of all distractions in the room where you are working. This will promote your ability to see the small errors.
2. Get someone else do the proofing
This is quite straight forward. Professional editorsare in the best position to see ambiguity and mistakes in work. Get some help with the proofreadingbefore hitting send or submitting.
3. Put it on paper
Sometimes it’s hard to proof soft copy. This is because of how the eyes are naturally made not to tell the accuracy of typed work. Hard copy proofing is the best approach. Print the work out and proof it.
4. Homonyms
These ate words that share same spellings and pronunciation, yet have different meanings. For most people, words like complement and compliment are distractive. They could spell disaster in an essay or exam test.
5. Contractions and the apostrophes
Contractions are difficult. Yet, many people make mistakes that include them in their writing. Words like their and they’re can hurt the credibility of your writing if they are not checked. Also check out for instances where you have used apostrophes in plurals. They are never used there and you need to correct that.
6. Checking for punctuations
A huge part of proofreading work is to check punctuations. This means looking out for words that are capitalized wrongly, missing or extra commas, periods that have been used wrongly and other typos.
7. Read work backwards
It’s essential for you to start the habit of reading words backwards. This is because, the brains makes and corrects its o8. Check the numbers Numbers are often confusing in text. However, humans are mad about numbers. You never know what their implications are when they turn out wrong. The best you can do is double checking your number sources. Make sure the numbers you use in the essay or writing is accurate.
Now what kind of proof reader are YOU? Did you spot any errors in this post, which I put up exactly as I received it?
After an essay or other written work has been done and completed, checking to ensure it’s in the best condition follows. Proofreading work saves a lot of time and ensures that your work doesn’t go in vein. Proofing software is not efficient. This leaves your open option as the manual way. Here are some tips for you:
1. Concentration
You need to concentrate on your work if you intend to catch the small mistakes. And to do this, you need to rid yourself of all distractions in the room where you are working. This will promote your ability to see the small errors.
2. Get someone else do the proofing
This is quite straight forward. Professional editorsare in the best position to see ambiguity and mistakes in work. Get some help with the proofreadingbefore hitting send or submitting.
3. Put it on paper
Sometimes it’s hard to proof soft copy. This is because of how the eyes are naturally made not to tell the accuracy of typed work. Hard copy proofing is the best approach. Print the work out and proof it.
4. Homonyms
These ate words that share same spellings and pronunciation, yet have different meanings. For most people, words like complement and compliment are distractive. They could spell disaster in an essay or exam test.
5. Contractions and the apostrophes
Contractions are difficult. Yet, many people make mistakes that include them in their writing. Words like their and they’re can hurt the credibility of your writing if they are not checked. Also check out for instances where you have used apostrophes in plurals. They are never used there and you need to correct that.
6. Checking for punctuations
A huge part of proofreading work is to check punctuations. This means looking out for words that are capitalized wrongly, missing or extra commas, periods that have been used wrongly and other typos.
7. Read work backwards
It’s essential for you to start the habit of reading words backwards. This is because, the brains makes and corrects its o8. Check the numbers Numbers are often confusing in text. However, humans are mad about numbers. You never know what their implications are when they turn out wrong. The best you can do is double checking your number sources. Make sure the numbers you use in the essay or writing is accurate.
Now what kind of proof reader are YOU? Did you spot any errors in this post, which I put up exactly as I received it?
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