Editing and Proofreading for Business Writers --- Part 1

Description

This class will give students a working knowledge of the quality standards required of all business correspondence. Standard procedures to follow before a document is sent and professional techniques to spot errors will be covered. Students will be able to construct complete sentences and punctuate clauses, phrases, and appositives. They will also learn how to correctly use quotation marks, dashes, parentheses, colons, and semicolons. Students will be able to avoid confusing common look-alike and sound-alike words. They will be able to locate and correct these surface errors in a variety of documents of differing lengths.

Objectives

• You will be able to list the minimum standards of correctness for a business document. You will also be able to identify 4 - 5 editing techniques to spot and correct errors.
• You will be able to identify and correct sentence fragments and correctly punctuate simple, compound, and complex sentences.
• You will be able to correctly punctuate common phrases and clauses when you edit your own documents.

• You will be able to identify and correct word confusions in your documents.

   

Book

Editing Standards, Procedures, and Techniques

pages 2 - 14

Complete Sentences and Basic Punctuation

pages 19 - 23, 4, sections 7B, 21A, 39, 30-32, 40D(2), 55

(Use the Index or Table of Content to find desired topics.)

More Punctuation

Sections 30F, 44-48, 52-53

(Use the Index or Table of Content to find desired sections.)

Correcting Common Word Confusions

pages 45 - 49, Sections 19F, 20, 40, 42A, 42C, 41, 10A, 23F, 72

(Use the Index or Table of Content to find desired sections.)

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