Professional Online Proofreading Services
The Proofreading Girl offers professional proofreading to a wide range of clients, including students, authors, editors, web site owners, and business, legal and medical professionals. If you are in need of highly accurate, affordable proofreading from an experienced pro, you’ve come to the right place.
On this site, you can:
- Learn why it’s difficult to effectively proofread your own work.
- See examples of what can happen when you don’t hire a proofreader.
- Get proofreading rates and upload your document for an exact quotation.
What is a Proofreader?
A “proof copy” is a version of a manuscript that has already been edited for content. Proof copies often contain typographical errors introduced by mistyping (hence the word typo to refer to misplaced, missing or incorrect characters). Traditionally, a proofreader checks printed, typeset pages and marks any errors using standard proof correction marks. In the modern world, however, it is just as common for proofreaders to make corrections to electronic copy like Word or OpenOffice documents. Either way, this process is sometimes also called line editing because of the line-by-line scrutiny documents undergo.
Proofreading is a specific skill that must be learned because the human brain is surprisingly adept at correcting errors automatically, and authors routinely miss errors in their own copy. When you work with The Proofreading Girl, you are working with an experienced, professionally trained proofreader who will turn your proof copy into letter-perfect documents.
