Chapter Six
Determine What Kind of
Proofing You Require
E
INTEGRATE PROOFING INTO
THE WRITING PROCESS
In the last chapter, you learned four easy-to-use tactics to improve your
writing. You discovered how to achieve conciseness, enhance clarity,
establish a positive tone, and maintain parallel construction.
In this chapter, we’re going to look at the level of proofreading that
is appropriate for your projects and discuss the types of errors, omissions,
and inconsistencies for which you’ll need to proof. You’ll also be alerted
to the most common grammatical and punctuation errors found in business
writing.
UNDERSTAND PROOFREADING’S ROLE IN
THE BUSINESS WRITING PROCESS
Proofreading is a key part of producing effective business communications
and needs to be integrated into the writing process. Many people
think that proofreading occurs once, at the end of the writing process. In
fact, most professional writers proofread early and often, knowing that
they’ll save their organizations time and money if they catch and correct
errors promptly.
The Rule of Five demonstrates the point that the earlier you catch
an error, the less time and money it will take to fix the mistake. While the
specific numbers aren’t the issue, the dollar amounts quoted below are
reasonable guesstimates, and it’s the relative relationship of the numbers
Chapter Six
Determine What Kind of
Proofing You Require
E
INTEGRATE PROOFING INTO
THE WRITING PROCESS
In the last chapter, you learned four easy-to-use tactics to improve your
writing. You discovered how to achieve conciseness, enhance clarity,
establish a positive tone, and maintain parallel construction.
In this chapter, we’re going to look at the level of proofreading that
is appropriate for your projects and discuss the types of errors, omissions,
and inconsistencies for which you’ll need to proof. You’ll also be alerted
to the most common grammatical and punctuation errors found in business
writing.
UNDERSTAND PROOFREADING’S ROLE IN
THE BUSINESS WRITING PROCESS
Proofreading is a key part of producing effective business communications
and needs to be integrated into the writing process. Many people
think that proofreading occurs once, at the end of the writing process. In
fact, most professional writers proofread early and often, knowing that
they’ll save their organizations time and money if they catch and correct
errors promptly.
The Rule of Five demonstrates the point that the earlier you catch
an error, the less time and money it will take to fix the mistake. While the
specific numbers aren’t the issue, the dollar amounts quoted below are
reasonable guesstimates, and it’s the relative relationship of the numbers
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