The Importance of Profreeding

Posted: Septemeber, 18, 2016

This will be a fun blog for me , because as tempting as it is, I will refrain from fixing my mistakes.  Then I can have pleasure at the tought of you cringing in your seats as you read this.  I want to clearify the importance of proofreading.

If you are a professional writer, or just a student preparing an essay it matters.  Even just writing a simple email or quick note to a co-worker, it is important to practice good proofreading.  Heare are some good reasons why you need to proofread:

1.       Readers will be able to focus on content instead of the mistakes.  Nothing is more upsetting to a reader, when their attention is pulled away from what they are reading, all from something that should have been gone over once or twice.

2.       Proofreading shows concern for content.  If a writer corrects a mistake, they are showing true interest for the piece.  If not, the reader will feel a certain level of lazieness.

3.       Proofreading shows professionalism.  If you are trying sell something, or maybe you are in a leadership role, nothing will deter your clients or subordinates from you quicker than a misspelled word.

4.       Grammar Nazis will leave you alone.  We all know one.  They read your work up and down, and can’t help themselves at telling you what went wrong with your sentences.

5.       Proofreading brings a peace of mind.  Nothing is more calming then going back through your work and nitpicking it apart, to fix and slip-ups.

While editing a piece can be very time consuming, it is still a part of writing.  I like to break it up into a percentage:  10% writing, 90% editing.  Writing is general considered the fun part.  Editing is often viewed as a pain staking process.  But if you look at these five reasons on why it needs to be done, well maybe it will lighten proofreadings reputation.

(I want to make sure everyone unsderstands that Editing and Proofreeading are two diferent things,, but fall under the same category.  Editing is much huger, and one day we will plunge into that subject, today is not that day)

-Beck