Are you making silly mistakes in academic writing? Are your marks getting affected due to this? Proofreading can be a potent solution to your problem. It means finding out the errors carefully in the text or content before getting it shared. It is generally fixing minor spelling mistakes, pronunciation mistakes, formatting inconsistencies, and issues. It is essential for any text that will be published to the audience, whether it is an online article, job application, academic paper.

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TOPIC 5: IMPORTANCE OF PROOFREADING IN ACADEMIC
WRITING

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Are you making silly mistakes in academic writing? Are your marks getting affected due to this?
Proofreading can be a potent solution to your problem. It means finding out the errors carefully
in the text or content before getting it shared. It is considered as a last stage of text revision. It is
generally fixing minor spelling mistakes, pronunciation mistakes, formatting inconsistencies and
issues. It is essential for any text that will be published to the audience, whether it is an online
article, job application, academic paper. Based on the budget it is decided whether to do it by self
or by doing it hiring a professional. Where as, Proofreading and editing is the step that are very
essential in the process of text revision. It can create a major change that can be seen in language,
structure and content. Proofreading only focuses on minor inconsistencies and errors in the text.
There are four stages involved in proofreading and editing. Content editing that involves making
changes that are significant to the content by moving, adding or deleting the sections. It involves
reviewing earlier. Line editing involves revising the use of language in order to communicate
ideas, arguments, and stories effectively. This involves making changes in the words, sentences
or phrases in order for improvement. Copyediting involves sentence polishing in order to ensure
correct syntax, grammar and consistencies in stylistic, which involves following certain rules to
particular guide styles (for e.g. APA). The importance of proofreading involves checking any
sort of remaining errors, such as spelling errors, inconsistencies in stylistic and errors in
punctuation that are very common and to avoid such ignorant mistakes proofreading is preferred.
Academic writing is referred as any writing, which is done to fulfill the requirement of university
or college. Academic writing is also used in case of publications that are used by researchers or
teachers or are even used in conferences. Academic writings are used in the following context
such as Translations, book, reports, essays, research article or paper, academic journal or
conference paper. There are certain kind of characteristics that are involved in proofreading
which is the most necessary step, such as, planning, outlining, tone, language viewpoint and
approach. Not only that, there is a particular kind of structure that are used for academic writing.
There are many Proofreading services that are available nowadays that are used by students,
professors, lecturers and so on for efficient editing, while publishing the text to the audience.
Even though there are certain proofreading services that are easily available online in order to
avoid making common mistakes. Content revision is usually considered as the last phase, in the
revision stage of text one have the opportunity to make necessary changes so that it can be easier
for the audience to grasp its essence. Revision means that one is sure that the information is well

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formed and organized. This is the opportunity where one can rearrange the paragraph or even
one can remove it. During this phase, one may add necessary paragraphs that one may find
suitable. Therefore, the importance of proofreading is vast and it is a widely used practice
nowadays.