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The Full Proof blog
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This proofreading testimonial really touched me
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...
Certificate of proofreading required? We can help!
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...
Proofreading press releases
We’ve been proofreading press releases for a long time at Full Proof, having forged close relationships with a number of PR agencies over the years. Proofreading press releases...
Proofreading WordPress websites
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...
Proofreading PDFs
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...
Full Proof awarded Certificate of Excellence again
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...
Track Changes – how to use Microsoft Word’s proofreading tool
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...
What is legal proofreading?
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...
Copywriting – tasty morsels or a blow-out meal?
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 mark of a proofreader
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...
The difference between copy-editing and proofreading
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...
Spellcheck won’t save you
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...
Proofreading tips: Four quick ways to proofread a document
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...
Starting out as an editorial professional: Should you specialise?
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...
It’s just a number
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?...
Is it a dash? Is it a hyphen? No, it’s super-confusing!
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...
Gender and vocabulary – walking the tightrope of political correctness
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...
RIP the paper dictionary
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...
Just doing my job: the helpful hyphen
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...
Grammar – what’s all the fuss about?
We all know what the word ‘grammar’ means, or at least we think we do. For most people, mentioning the word ‘grammar’ brings back memories of school English lessons and the...
The Internet has changed lives, and it’s changing language too
The past 20 years have seen enormous advances in communication. In mobile phone communication we have moved from basic text messages in 2001 to sophisticated apps in 2012 and on...