Why everyone needs to use a professional proofreading service

So you want to publish something about your business.  Or your website.  Or your society’s monthly newsletter.

Or you have a business plan to deliver to a potential financial backer.

Or you need to hand in your university dissertation.

You think that your document is finished, and you’re raring to go. But…

Someone has to check that your document is logical and well-structured, and that it flows easily; also to ensure that there are no grammatical errors, nor any mistakes in spelling or punctuation.

So you could engage the services of a professional proofreading service, right?

What – pay for someone to check my stuff?  No thanks! I’ll get one of the guys in Admin to read it during their lunch break; they know how to use a spell-checker, and anyway a couple of them owe me a favour.  That should be fine, and it’ll be free.”

There are times when “free” is good; everybody likes “free”!

When there’s a lot at stake, however, it’s never worth the risk not to engage the services of a professional.

Proofreading is absolutely critical for anyone wishing to publish a document of any sort because:

  • errors can be expensive, even harmful
  • errors can be embarrassing for you
  • errors are unprofessional.

Proofreading your own work is never a good idea; people simply aren’t able to see, for example, their own typos, omissions, or accidental use of errant typefaces as easily as a fresh pair of eyes can.  After all, if you knew about the errors you’d made in your document, you’d have corrected them, wouldn’t you?

You can’t rely solely on a spell-checker, either: their/there, your/you’re, its/it’s are all correct in the appropriate context, but a spell-checker isn’t aware of the context in which you have been writing!

When you engage EasyWriter to proofread your documentation, we’ll worry about – and correct – any mistakes, thereby leaving you to get on with what you do best.

Go past the “It’ll be fine” attitude.  Get to outstanding!