Proofreading

However good your business, product or the service you're offering, if the material you use to present it is full of errors and ambiguities, it leaves potential customers feeling doubtful. This one-day course answers basic grammar questions, and alerts you to some of the common mistakes and omissions that often slip through to printed material, so that you can ensure your own copy is crisp, correct and clear. We'll give you plenty of practice throughout the day, and help you to develop a system for checking copy so that nothing is missed. You'll also get checklists and handouts that you can use when you're at work.
You should be working in a field such as marketing, design, publishing, or corporate communications, where checking copy and sending it to print is part of your role.
Course Content The basics

• Why proofread?
• Introducing some of the basics of grammar, spelling and punctuation that people are often confused about.
• Answering the questions about grammar and spelling you've always wanted to ask.

What is proofreading?

• A quick review of the various stages of publishing
• The purpose of proofreading - more than grammar and spelling
• Communicating with the designer - useful proofreading symbols

Being systematic

• Approach - checklists and reminders
• Dealing with graphics - design, tables, pictures and captions
• Facts and copyright - when to raise the alarm

Signing off

• Checks and double checks
• Tips for last minute changes

Questions and answers