by Nick Jones | Sep 14, 2023 | Articles
Are you a proofreader? Then you are in ilustrious company! We thought it would be fun to research some well-known figures from history who also happened to be proofreaders at some point in their lives. In this article we explore the lives and contributions of five...
by Nick Jones | Jun 20, 2023 | News
I set up Full Proof way back in 2004, which seems a lifetime ago now. I was working full-time as an in-house proofreader for Yell having recently moved to Manchester, and my friend Dave kindly built me a website under the name Full Proof, a pun-based name that I’m...
by Nick Jones | Jan 1, 2022 | Articles
If you’re a university student writing an essay, dissertation, thesis or journal paper, you may be advised by your supervisor to invest in a professional academic proofreading service. With over 17 years’ experience of proofreading academic documents, the Full Proof...
by Nick Jones | Sep 1, 2021 | Articles
Proofreading for businesses is our bread and butter at Full Proof, and this includes proofreading press releases, having forged close relationships with a number of PR agencies over the years. Proofreading press releases is a unique form of proofreading for a number...
by Nick Jones | Jun 10, 2021 | Articles
WordPress is one of the most user-friendly content management system (CMS) available and is by far the most popular method of designing a website these days. Gone are the days of having to rely on a web designer to update your blog or your web pages – now you can...
by Nick Jones | May 1, 2021 | Articles
PDF proofreading has become an increasingly popular service of ours over the years. Back in 2004 when I started Full Proof, it was mainly Word documents that customers emailed to me, but now it’s probably 40% Word docs and 40% PDFs (the remaining percentage being...
by Nick Jones | Sep 14, 2020 | News
The popular UK freelancer platform Bark have awarded Full Proof their Certificate of Excellence for the second consecutive year. Some very welcome news in what has been a tough year for everyone! According to Bark, the award aims to recognise the best professionals on...
by Nick Jones | Mar 23, 2020 | Articles
In a recent article we talked in detail about BSi proofeading marks and how they’re still used by many proofreaders and editors. While this is true, the majority of Full Proof’s customers are not familiar witih these symbols. Thankfully, Microsoft Word (and indeed...
by Nick Jones | Mar 5, 2020 | Articles
The world we live in, work in and play in could not exist without the network of laws that govern us. The building you are sitting in: building regulations and planning permission, rights of access, rights of ownership. The technology you are using: patents, licences,...
by Nick Jones | Jul 5, 2019 | Articles
Imagine this … it’s Sunday morning and you’ve just had a huge weekend breakfast. You’re basking in the gourmet delights of bacon, sausages, black pudding, beans … well you’ve got the picture, haven’t you? Still sated from your hearty blow-out breakfast, you head off...
by Nick Jones | May 7, 2019 | Articles
In these days of digital editing, Google docs and MS Word’s Track Changes, it’s easy to think that traditional proofreading marks (or proof correction symbols) – those hieroglyphics that indicate corrections to the final proofs of a text before it goes to print – are...
by Nick Jones | Mar 29, 2019 | Articles
When a writer places the last full stop to their manuscript it may come after a long process and with great relief but, if the reader is to get the most from the work, it is always advisable to carry out a series of checks. Experienced authors often leave their...
by Nick Jones | Mar 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
There are two common responses when I tell people I’m a freelance proofreader and copy-editor: ‘Oh, I’d be good at that; I always notice spelling mistakes’ or ‘Can’t you just run spellcheck?’ While the latter is the most eye-roll inducing, both are based on a...
by Nick Jones | Feb 25, 2019 | Articles
We’ve all experienced a deadline that’s crept up on us – whether for work, university or something more personal. It’s not ideal, but it happens! In these scenarios, it’s easy to think: “I don’t have time to proofread – I’ll just print/send it as it is.” However,...
by Nick Jones | Feb 14, 2019 | Articles
So you’re serious about pursuing a career as a freelance proofreader or editor. You’ve had a look at the top ways of making money from home and you’ve established proofreading as a viable option based on your skill set. You’ve done some industry-recognised training,... by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
Numbers can be tricky – do you write them as figures (1,2,3, etc.) or do you write them as words (one, two, three, etc.)? How do you hyphenate compound words containing numbers? How do you deal with a mixture of figures and words? Dealing with numbers is important for... by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
They may all look like simple horizontal bars, but the dash and the hyphen have different jobs to do in the world of punctuation. Our article entitled Just doing my job: the helpful hyphen deals with the very helpful job of the hyphen: to eliminate, wherever possible,... by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
In professional writing it is very important that the reader understands the message we are trying to convey. Just as we don’t want the reader to be distracted by poor grammar or spelling, we equally don’t want them to be offended or distracted by our choice of... by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
Here at Full Proof, dictionaries and grammar reference books are in constant use by the proofreading team. Whether it’s a subject-specific technical term or just a word that’s not in regular use, our professional proofreaders are trained to find the correct words and... by Nick Jones | May 5, 2013 | Articles
You may seen Grammar Man in our student proofreading video. Grammar Man is our linguistic superhero, saving the world from grammatical blunders. Well, we’d also like to introduce you to Mr Helpful – the hyphen. He and the rest of his punctuation teammates (comma, full... 
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