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Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 10, 2014

Quality Proofreading Is Similar But Different Than Editing

By Dominique Martin


There are many pieces that you must write if you are a promoter, student or business owner. These may be articles, white papers or any other project that must be submitted for credit or to interest buyers. It needs to be correctly spelled and have impeccable grammar and anything else will make you look amateurish. This is why the use of someone who provides quality proofreading is the best choice for you.

A proofreader is often confused with an editor. They are two different types of treatment for your work. An editor can serve as a proofing service, however, a proofreader will only work with the information already written in the piece. The grammar, spelling any other issues will be looked at and corrected by this person. Their purpose is to make sure the copy is readable and understandable by the people interested in this copy.

Editors are those individuals who know the material you are writing about. This is because they are in the same industry and or are writing for the same promotional purposes. They will have additional information, often data sets, you do not have or have missed in your research. They will check your grammar as well as spelling, however, their focus is on adjusting, not just correcting your work.

Back to the proofreaders you can access easily, no matter where you live. San Diego, CA has many of these and they are easy to work with. These professionals will know all of the many grammar rules as well as spelling issues. The sound alike words that are used and spelled differently will be part of their knowledge base. The commas, colons and semi colons and when they are supposed to be used are their trade marks.

A very good thing they can do for you is to ensure the proper tenses are maintained throughout your written piece. Writing something and getting into the act of writing will often cause you to change point of reference. This means you will begin with a second person singular and switch, at some point, to a third or first person plural without knowing it. This is confusing for your readers.

You will also know that some writing will need, or is accustomed to be, in certain formats. For example an article is a little more formal than a blog. A white paper is usually in a third person, very formal, just the facts, type of writing. A blog is very much less formal and often will leave some information out to bait the reader into clicking in on the next blog for an explanation.

A proofreader will also find things that do not read as if the writer actually knows what they are talking about. Improper use of words, live links that either do not work or take the reader to the wrong website can be caught and fixed before anybody sees them. Long run on sentences can also be seen and repaired and this helps in the credibility category when it is published.

Looking at the type of writing you do and the number of problems you have, you can decide whether you need an editor or a proofreader. A proofreader can do most of the job and many of them will do more than some of them will. Have a conversation with them, in person, to determine what they can do for you to make your business presence better.




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