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Sunday 19 October 2014

Quality Proofreading Can Make Or Break Your Next Piece Of Copy

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.

The use of an editor means getting someone who in involved in the same niche or the same industry for which you are writing. They will have an idea about what data must go into the piece you are writing and will be able to beef up the information. They will produce additional material for your approval before they use it and will also check all spelling and grammatical issues as well.

Proofreaders will know all of the very many rules that govern grammar, spelling and those words that sound alike and are spelled differently. Commas, semi colons, colons and other punctuation is no mystery to them as they will catch the improper use of these and others. Finding a proofreader of this caliber, in San Diego, CA should not be an issue.

One of their most important functions, especially on websites and in long articles or white papers, is to keep the tenses uniform throughout. Many times people will write in a first person singular at the beginning of a piece and, somehow, change into a second or third person by the end. This is confusing and frustrating for readers who are trying to gain operational information as in a how to do article or series.

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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