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Posted April 4, 2023 What do you do when the written materials produced by your team aren’t up to par? Every manager has a different approach to this situation, but most tend to default to one of two positions: Fix the writing themselves. Send it back for correction. The first option can be very tempting because it often seems faster and easier, and the second option isn’t necessarily guaranteed...
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With all the demands of doing business today, avoiding proofreading mistakes doesn't always take high priority. If you're like many, you may be content to give your written communications a quick once-over to catch any major problems. That complacency could cost you big, though. Even minor spelling and punctuation errors mar your professional image . Worse yet, every now and then, a text contains an error...
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Writer Anne Lamott once said of her writing friends: "Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much." The truth is, all of us can benefit from giving our writing a second (or third, or fourth) pass. But where do you start when you might not even know the difference between editing and proofreading? And what about revisions? Here's a quick...
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An old truism says you should say what you mean and mean what you say, and that goes for writing, too. Whether it's a slip of our typing fingers or a momentary confusion over two homophones, we all make errors when we write. The trick is to catch them in proofreading. Here are seven proofreading tips to help you do so: Let the work sit. Giving yourself some time between writing and proofing lets your mental buffer...
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First, let's distinguish between editing and proofreading--they are not synonymous! Editing is the process of reviewing for content, logic, and other high-level elements, while proofreading is reviewing for misspelled and misused words, mechanical errors, and punctuation mistakes. Editing and proofreading are, in fact, two distinct processes that should not be conducted simultaneously. As we all know,...
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