PONDERING ON EDITORS
Editors’s Obsessions As a copy-editor and proofreader, the first judgement I make about a new acquaintance is whether or not they use the apostrophe correctly. This marks me out as [...]
RECENT COMMENTS FROM FORMER STUDENTS
Always good to hear from a former student: I completed your Proofreading and Editorial Skills distance learning course in 2009. I found it a very helpful introduction to the skills [...]
ACADEMIC PROOFREADING – PERILS AND PITFALLS
A guest spot today from an academic acquaintance... I get a lot of students – not just international, but mainly – coming to me asking for academic proofreading services. Universities [...]
PROOFREADING NONSENSE
Learning to Proofread When asked why they want to proofread, many students say that they love books and would like to do a job which keeps them in close contact [...]
PROOFREADING CHALLENGE
Learning to Proofread When we learn to proofread or to copy-edit, the best practice is to pore over newspapers and websites looking for errors and marking them appropriately using the [...]
GHOST TO PUBLISHER
Infant Lawyer I never planned to be a publisher. It was accidental. At school and university the world of proofreading, copy-editing and printing was confined to editing the school magazine. [...]
DRY OUT: LEARN TO PROOFREAD
Proofreaders' Worst Word? There are plenty of evil words out there designed to trip us up when we learn to proofread or copy-edit. We have to develop an unashamed dictionary [...]
RECONDITE
Copy-editors and proofreaders need to develop a wide vocabulary. They should be fascinated by words and language. If you are not hooked on words, the life of a proofreader or [...]
QUANTITATIVE / QUANTITIVE
Proofreaders Beware Of course, as a person who may want to learn to proofread or learn to copy-edit you will have immediately spotted the difference between the words in the title. [...]
PROOFREADING TRAINING IN POLITICS
Proofreading Training for Politicians? At Chapterhouse, we're considering offering proofreading training to politicians for the coming weeks. In my constituency of Oxford West (a tight Tory-Lib Dem marginal seat, but [...]