Got business skills? Prove it!

So you have completed this peak document and you are ready to send it on your way. You did your research and double-checked your facts. You have made sure that your document is readable, leaving a lot of the upper, lower, left and right margins of the white space to make it more attractive to the reader.

Of course, you know that you have to check it, but the client expects it to be in a hurry, because they will understand if there are some typos or words with errors, right? Maybe they may not be. Maybe they will accept it this time, but when the time comes to award contracts, they will think twice about working with a company that does work that is different from perfection. Are you more important, is your company ready to take this chance?

Do not make the mistake of counting proofreading as an “extra” step. It's not obligatory; it is necessary. The adjustment should be the final step in writing any document, be it a 50-page report or a 100-word letter. If you send a note (internal document) with errors, you risk damaging your authority; If you send a document with errors to those outside your company, you also cause damage to your company.

Here are some proofreading recommendations:

Do not rely on spell checking. Spell check is fine, but not in a pinch. The spell checker only knows if the word is a word; he does not distinguish between words that sound, but have different meanings; those. "There, they, they"; “Him, this”; "One, I won."

Take a break between writing and proofreading. Corrector with "fresh eyes". If you have the luxury of time, wait 24 hours after you have written the document before proofreading. Most of us do not have this luxury, but wait even 20 minutes before the document is useful.

Always check the paper copy. Never try to carry out proofreading on the screen of your computer - when you check on the screen, you see what you want to write. This advice is suitable for those cases when you check other writers, documents. Most likely, you will see errors when checking the printed copy.

Correction away from the workspace. When you check a document in the same place that you wrote the document, you tend to correct it as soon as you find the error. It will slow you down.

Always check out loud. When you read out loud, you will see errors that you may miss while reading silently.

Get a second pair of eyes for proofreading, especially complex documents or documents that will be read by people outside your company. Easier to find others. mistakes than ours.

It goes without saying that you want everything that you write to reflect well on you and your company. Now the proof!