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Proofreading
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
29 / 01 / 21
The first draft of a document is usually something like the proverbial first pancake: a less-than-ideal shape, a little thin in some parts and undercooked in others. OK, I’ve stretched the analogy, but you get the point. The best pieces of work don’t appear fully formed and perfect on the first try. It can take […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
10 / 03 / 20
No matter where you are as you read this, you spend most of your time living in the same place as I do: in your screen. We all live in our screens now. We wake and switch off the alarm on our phone and swipe to the news. We stare at social media as we […]
20 / 10 / 11
Blimey! Great to see such a fantastic response to our proofreading challenge. Thank you to everyone who entered. Best of all, it’s proof positive that there’s a ready platoon of gung-ho proofreaders out there who love the smell of Tipp-Ex in the morning. At ease, soldiers. Be sure to come back on Monday, though: we’ll […]
Posted by: Cathy Dann
14 / 09 / 11
Hello, I’m Cathy, and I’m a sub-editor (scourge of the newsroom, pedant and dictionary botherer). As such, my job is to spot inaccuracies, correct typos, clean up grammar and write headlines. I spend most of my time working at the broadsheets, where the copy is of very high quality. Even so, there are still plenty […]
09 / 12 / 09
Write Now reader Simon Lewis joins the great ‘that’ debate: Definitely one of my bugbears, that. Take this example: “The teaching medical students receive also leaves them with an incomplete picture.” I started interpreting this as “The medical students who teach…” — and then obviously realised [that] it was supposed to be interpreted “The teaching […]
19 / 11 / 09
We’ve all done it: accidentally substituted a similar-sounding but actually entirely different word for the one we meant to write. And while no-one wants to be the person who does it (it could seriously undermine your credibility), for humour’s sake, we’re probably all secretly glad it happens occasionally. Take one of the features of a […]
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