Proofreading Business Writing Many Proofreading Exercises
What you’ll learn
Immediately produce higher-quality writing with improved proofreading
Improve business communication
Learn common proofreading techniques
Create better first impressions with your writing by simply proofreading and catching errors
Avoid costly mistakes with proofreading
Catch more errors in your writing before someone else does
Requirements
A desire to learn proofreading, and an understanding that it will make the rest of your work more effective
Description
Proofreading isn’t fun. But it is necessary. Learn the best proofreading techniques to help you have fewer errors in your writing and have your writing appear more professional.PROOFREADING TECHNIQUESI’ll walk you through what to do on each proofreading pass through the text. LEARN ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO HELP YOUR PROOFREADINGAfter you’ll learn proofreading techniques, you will learn the basics of English grammar. We’ll start with basics like the building blocks of a sentence and once you feel comfortable with that, we’ll move on to writing sentences together so they read well.HOW IMPROVED PROOFREADING WILL HELP YOUR CAREERAt any job, you must write. You will write everything ranging from texts and instant messages to email to fill-length documents. This course will help you master grammar so you can impress with your writing no matter what you are writing or with whom you are communicating.Your co-workers, managers, or potential clients will often get their first impression of you from your writing. Whether it’s a potential client visiting your website or a manager or a potential employer, sometimes they see your work like a resume or a report or an email pitch before they have a chance to meet you. If you make a bad first impression with your writing, you may not get a chance to talk to your client on go on a job interview. But if you make a great first impression with your writing, it may open doors and give you a chance to prove yourself further.MY OWN EXPERIENCE WITH WRITING AS A CAREER TOOLI was a Computer Science major in college. But because I was interested in writing, my ability to write better always helped me stand out above my peers. I always had a better than average resume, and got better jobs than my peers. When I went into online business, writing helped me write my books, blog posts, and other website content. In online marketing, writing helps me write better titles and descriptions of my products. Writing also helps me have more efficient online communication. I use it every day and it is in nearly everything I do. This is why I highly recommend it for you too.RESPONSIVE AND CARING INSTRUCTOR: WORLD-CLASS STUDENT SUPPORTIf you have questions about improving your proofreading skills, I am here to help! I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don’t respond. Well, I do because 1) I care about my students.2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money’s worth from the course.Invest in your future. Enroll today.
Overview
Section 1: Welcome and introduction to this proofreading course
Lecture 1 Welcome and introduction to this proofreading course
Section 2: Proofreading your writing
Lecture 2 Proofreading your writing
Lecture 3 Checklist for proofreading
Lecture 4 Not re-reading what we expect and using different perspectives
Lecture 5 Word document features and services you can ask for or hire
Lecture 6 Proofreading longer texts by printing it out
Lecture 7 Proofreading exercise
Lecture 8 Proofreading exercise – answer
Section 3: English grammar to help you with your proofreading
Lecture 9 Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar
Lecture 10 8 parts of speech in English grammar
Lecture 11 Sentence clauses and sentence fragments
Lecture 12 Conjunctions
Lecture 13 Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues
Lecture 14 Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences
Lecture 15 Four types of sentence structures
Lecture 16 10 comma rules that will immediately make you a better writer
Lecture 17 Example of fixing many mistakes per sentence in a sales text
Lecture 18 Example 2 of fixing many mistakes per sentence in a sales text
Lecture 19 Semicolon rules
Lecture 20 Semicolon exercises
Lecture 21 Colon rules
Lecture 22 Colon exercise
Lecture 23 Colon exercise – answers
Lecture 24 Question marks
Lecture 25 Use of quotes – otherwise known as quotation marks
Lecture 26 Quotation mark exercise
Lecture 27 Commonly misspelled words that involve a hyphen
Lecture 28 How to use the hyphen
Lecture 29 Another rule for using the hyphen
Lecture 30 Common terms with hyphen to memorize
Lecture 31 Exercises to practice the hyphen rules
Lecture 32 NEW! Many more examples added to the course
Lecture 33 English grammar and punctuation exercise
Lecture 34 English grammar and punctuation exercise – answers
Section 4: Word choices errors to help you find mistakes like these during proofreading
Lecture 35 Common word choice errors: Its vs. it’s, Fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more
Lecture 36 Use of lets vs. let’s
Lecture 37 Who and whom
Lecture 38 Ten commonly misspelled words
Lecture 39 Common word-choice error exercise
Lecture 40 Common word-choice error exercise answer
Section 5: Regular and irregular verbs
Lecture 41 Regular and irregular verbs
Section 6: Tool to aid your proofreading
Lecture 42 Grammarly
Section 7: Proofreading course conclusion
Lecture 43 Course certificate – how to get it
Lecture 44 Bonus lecture
You must learn proofreading to make all your work-related writing better!
Course Information:
Udemy | English | 3h 24m | 1.21 GB
Created by: Alex Genadinik
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