Why proofreading your assignment is necessary?

Author: Tom Alter

You are being advised that you should always proofread and go through your assignment before ending or submitting your assignment. Many people believe that the proofreading is just a ten minute exercise or job. Furthermore, many people believe it’s just an exercise to check spelling mistakes or errors in grammars and many more don’t consider checking their work or assignment at all. Proofreading enables you to polish your assignment with fine words and grammar. Proofreading always provides you a better edge over other people and in the end it gives you a better presentable assignment.

Some of the key facets to check errors are as follows:

  • Whether you have or you haven’t answered the asked question?
  • Whether your assignment is written accordingly and in the prescribed manner or not?

Well directed approach in order to perform proofreads:

Get ready to proof reading – The time you feel you are finished with your assignment, take out a printout of your assignment work done. After an hour, get ready with pencil or any marker (highlighter) and with the printout to start proofreading. Many mistakes can’t be seen or realized if you read the assignment on PC/laptop so, always preferable to proofread on the printout.

Choose an objective approach - Whenever you are finished with your writing assignment, leave it for one hour before you start up with the proofreading. This will provide you enough time to think and think upon more analytical view in analyzing or reviewing your performed work. In order to derive more focus towards your work, you can read your assignment out loud. This will help you in identifying those sentences which are in overrun (i.e. Long sentence to read), enabling you to pinpoint the respected areas where commas are required. You can take the help of the other people also, in order to know as to whether your assignment is answered to the respected question or not and if it is making any sense or not.

Read one paragraph at a time and give two minute pause while switching onto another paragraph – Get a habit of proofread one sentence at a time. Check carefully that each of your sentences is making sense and is describing a complete idea. Use computer software in order to check spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Special check on the words as sometimes the pronunciation of the words comes out to be same, but the word might be with different spelling and different meaning. It would be better to have two smaller sentences, rather too long sentences which give trouble to the reader while reading and listener while adhering long sentences.

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