Proofreading and Editing Resources
With our proofreading and editing resources at hand, you’ll be geared up to tackle even the toughest assignments. Build your editorial toolkit by making our checklists, style sheets, and grammar guides your go-to references.
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Proofreading Checklists
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Blank Proofreading Checklist
Download this blank template and personalize it. Always forgetting that one thing? Just add it to this document, and create a list to remind yourself of the key steps of your proofreading process.
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Nonfiction Proofreading Checklist
Use this checklist for proofreading or copy editing nonfiction manuscripts, such as biographies and travelogues.
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Fiction Manuscript Proofreading Checklist
Use this checklist when copy editing or proofreading manuscripts for fiction, whether novels or short stories.
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Informal Business Proofreading Checklist
Use this checklist for proofreading informal and marketing business copy, such as blogs, emails, and website content.
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Formal Business Proofreading Checklist
Use this for proofreading formal business documents, such as business reports and white papers.
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Academic Proofreading Checklist
Our academic proofreading checklist is designed for student essays, but you can adapt it and use it for dissertations, journal articles, theses, research papers, and any other academic documents.
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Online Dictionaries and Glossaries
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Publishing Glossary
This is specifically concerned with terms you might come across when proofreading creative writing, or when working within the publishing industry.
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Knowadays Proofreading Glossary
This is a general proofreading glossary.
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Online Dictionaries for Proofreaders and Editors
To help make things easier for you, we have reviewed the best online dictionaries for proofreaders and editors.
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Style Guides and Sheets
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Business Writing Style Sheet
Use this example style sheet as a model for creating your own when proofreading or editing a business document.
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Academic Writing Style Sheet
You can modify this template to make notes on stylistic preferences in an academic document.
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Nonfiction Style Sheet
Use this style sheet template to note down stylistic elements in nonfiction writing, whether it’s a technical guide, historical study, or biography.
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Fiction Style Sheet
There can be many unique stylistic elements in creative writing, so a customized style sheet helps you keep track.
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Style Guides
Here, we've put together many of the style guides that you may come across as a proofreader. We've provided links where possible so you have access to these whenever you need them.
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Grammar
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Grammar Guides
Here is a collection of guides, online and print, which are useful if you want to polish your grammar skills as a proofreader.
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Punctuation
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Punctuation Guides
Here are some guides that contain virtually everything a proofreader needs to know about punctuation and its many rules and irregularities.
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