Proofreading

People often use the term ‘proofreading’ to mean any kind of editing, but professionally it means a last quality check after your text content has been put into its final format by you or a designer. This is not the time to make major changes or start rewriting. If your document needs such work then it should first be copyedited.

Proofreading includes checking for:

• remaining minor errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar and consistency

• problems with the layout, such as wrong page numbers, misalignments, incorrect heading levels, broken links