Despite these uncertainties, proofreading is

an immensely important skill and is vital, for instance, when checking translations. Find great tips for proofreaders anywhere that may help to improve their skills.

6 Great Proofreading Tips

This may sound obvious, if time consuming, but it can be done most effectively if you look at a different aspect of the text each time.

1.Proof read the text several times

Especially if you have a lot of text to proofread, having fresh eyes, or at least a fresh mind, will improve your accuracy.

2.Have a rest

By reading out the text aloud, preferably to another helper, you will be forced to read the text more accurately.

3.Read out the text aloud

Hard copy text is often easier to read than that displayed on a monitor. When you scroll down a word document or another format that contains text, it is easy to miss whole lines that could have contained errors.

4.Print the text onto a hard copy version

This may seem unnecessarily complicated, but it is a proofreading service technique which can often catch out individual word errors which may have been missed if the lines had been reading the right way round.

5.Read your text back to front

While spell checkers are quick and easy ways of proofreading a document, they are certainly not foolproof! They only check whether a word is really a word and cannot distinguish between two words that sound the same, but are actually spelled differently. Your dictionary is used when there is doubt over an individual word’s meaning.

6. Use a combination of your spellchecker and a dictionary.

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