WHAT IS PROOFREADING?

Whether you’ve written a novel, a short story, a factual guide or a business report, proofreading will help your report to be accurate and well presented.

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For both fiction and non-fiction, proofreading will help to provide a professional presentation to your text by checking it for errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation, and for inconsistencies in facts or the plot.

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For other types of non-fiction and business writing, proofreading will also ensure that your additional content, such as tables and figures, is correct and consistent.

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The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) has provided the best guide to proofreading – please use that link if you'd like to know more. This guide will tell you more details about what proofreading is, and – quite importantly – what it is not.

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I’d be really happy to answer any questions that you have about how proofreading can help your writing – you can get in touch with me here.