What you'll learn

  • Produce higher-quality writing

  • Learn common proofreading techniques

  • Write better emails

  • Improve business communication

  • Create better first impressions with your writing

  • Catch more errors in your writing before someone else does

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 TECHNIQUES I'll walk you through what to do on each proofreading pass through the text. LEARN ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO HELP YOUR PROOFREADING After 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 THIS WILL HELP YOUR CAREER

At 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 TOOL

I was a Computer Science major in college. But because I was interested in writing, 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.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Welcome and introduction to this proofreading course
  2. 2

    • Proofreading your writing

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    • Checklist for proofreading

    • Not re-reading what we expect and using different perspectives

    • Word document features and services you can ask for or hire

    • Proofreading longer texts by printing it out

    • Proofreading exercise

    • Proofreading exercise - answer
  3. 3

    • Introducing basic building blocks of English grammar

    • 8 parts of speech in English grammar

    • Sentence clauses and sentence fragments

    • Conjunctions

    • Fixing run-on sentences and dealing with complex grammar issues

    • Example of fixing run-on sentences with simple and clear sentences

    • Four types of sentence structures

    • 10 comma rules that will immediately make you a better writer

    • Example of fixing many mistakes per sentence in a sales text

    • Example 2 of fixing many mistakes per sentence in a sales text

    • Semicolon rules

    • Colon rules

    • Question marks

    • Use of quotes - otherwise known as quotation marks

    • Commonly misspelled words that involve a hyphen

    • How to use the hyphen

    • Another rule for using the hyphen

    • Common terms with hyphen to memorize

    • Exercises to practice the hyphen rules

    • NEW! Many more examples added to the course

    • English grammar and punctuation exercise

    • English grammar and punctuation exercise - answers
  4. 4

    • Common word choice errors: Its vs. it's, Fewer vs. less, than vs. then & more

    • Use of lets vs. let's

    • Who and whom

    • Ten commonly misspelled words

    • Common word-choice error exercise

    • Common word-choice error exercise answer
  5. 5

    • Regular and irregular verbs
  6. 6

    • Grammarly