The Full Proof Blog - a blog about proof reading http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog A proofreading blog Wed, 02 May 2012 09:18:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copywriting for the skimmers (by Julie Farmer) http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=903 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=903#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:36:39 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=903 Julie Dawn Farmer is a professional copywriter and owner of JDF Writing, a Sheffield-based copywriting company.

How often do you click on a website and read every word of every page? I would like to bet that the answer …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=903 0 Calling all students – beware of cowboy proofreaders! http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=881 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=881#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:05:08 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=881 Beware of shady proofreading companiesEarlier this week I received an email from a distraught foreign student who was desperate for help. She wanted us to proofread her 10,000-word dissertation within 24 hours. Luckily we were able to accommodate her request, but she was nervous …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=881 0 FREELANCERS IN THE UK (by Katie Kirk) http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=860 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=860#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:01:17 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=860 From time to time we invite guest bloggers to share their advice, tips or views. This time we’ve asked Katie Kirk from Freelancers In The UK to talk about her site, which is one of the UK’s leading online resources …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=860 0 Over the limit? Tips on reducing your word count! http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=760 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=760#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:14:34 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=760 Reducing your word count

Ah, the dreaded word limit. One of the toughest challenges students encounter when writing an essay, dissertation or thesis is keeping the word count to a level deemed acceptable by their university.

In this modern age of texting and tweeting, …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=760 1 Our new website is now live! http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=815 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=815#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:17:31 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=815 Full Proof website

We’re very pleased to announce that the Full Proof website has had a pretty major facelift. Genius graphic artist and web design guru, Paul Corless, has worked his magic once again, and we’re ecstatic with the results. We hope you …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=815 0 How to use abbreviations http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=789 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=789#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:49:48 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=789 Abbreviations - how to use them

Abbreviations can be very useful when writing. They help you to write concisely and to reduce long-winded names or phrases which may become tedious for the reader, especially if those phrases are used repeatedly in the same document.

There are …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=789 0 Copywriting – tasty morsels or a blow-out meal? (by Joy McCarthy) http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=724 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=724#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:37:30 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=724 Joy McCarthy is a professional copywriter. With her husband David, she runs WORD-right, a successful Oxfordshire-based copywriting company.

Imagine this … it’s Sunday morning and you’ve just had a huge weekend breakfast.  You’re basking in the gourmet delights of …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=724 0 Ghotit – great software for dyslexic students http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=604 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=604#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:36:12 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=604 English is a difficult language for anyone to master, so if you’re dyslexic it can cause real headaches, particularly when you’re at university and you have to write essay upon essay! With approximately 5-15% of the population suffering from severe …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=604 0 Proofreading rates – is it fair to charge foreign students extra? http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=683 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=683#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:00:43 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=683 At Full Proof, we get a lot of work from students. Every week we proofread academic documents of various types – essays, dissertations, theses, journal articles – and the majority of that work is from foreign students. Needless to say, we highly …

]]> http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?feed=rss2&p=683 0 Judge ye not…(by Stephanie Hitch) http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=676 http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=676#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:19 +0000 Nick Jones http://www.full-proof.co.uk/Blog/?p=676 Stephanie Hitch is a professional proofreader. She is a former solicitor and EFL teacher. She specialises in legal proofreading at www.legalproofreader.co.uk.

Lawyers are supposed to be good with words. Words are the tools of their trade, after all. I …

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