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Proofreading for everyone

Archive for March, 2012

Don’t make mistakes, ok?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Troubled by typos? Maddened by misspellings? My best advice for you is this: don’t make mistakes.

If you take this advice, you won’t need spell checkers (which leave mistakes because they have no brain), editors (who have brains but need plenty of money) or Aunt Maisy (who’s quite skilled but often takes a nap) to check over your writing.

They won’t be needed because your writing will be perfect.

If, for some reason, you cannot heed my thoughtful counsel of perfection, send your writing to FastProof for the modern, fast and easy way to remove mistakes.

Tips and hints

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

common misteak

Duplicate words

It’s easy to type little words twice and, if they end up in the sneakily right place in a paragraph, it’s hard to spot the duplication. Watch out for words like “the”,”of”, “and”, “air”, “salt”, “back”, “butt” and “but” hiding copies of themselves where you least expect them. Even longer words can get into stealth mode – words such as “wheelbarrow”, “submarine” and “international” – although not often.


Misspelling

Commonly misspelled words (shown with correct spelling). Continue Reading…

This is exciting

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

The launch of FastProof on 20 February was followed behind the scenes by frenetic activity as we hit the phones to sign up businesses for our newsletter.

Preliminary figures show an astounding uptake above 90 percent. We’re very excited. Many businesses have been trying without success to find a proofreader, and FastProof finally gives them an easy solution. Time will tell – when these subscriptions get converted into sales.

Big companies have proofreaders on their staff, but small to medium companies can’t afford it. Individuals don’t use a proofreader! You and I only need a proofreader about every five or ten years to check our cv, but who knows how to get one or how much to pay them?

FastProof is the simple, economical answer for us all.