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Why Proofreading Is Vitally Important
Words can be deceiving.
You don’t think about commas or quotes when you speak. You probably couldn’t care less about capitalization, spelling, or punctuation at the end of a spoken sentence. No matter what part of this planet you call home, your native language is so ingrained that simply speaking makes the words, inflections, pauses, and meanings automatically come out.
Then there’s writing.
In some cases, transferring your thoughts to a visual form is mind-bogglingly hard. Oh sure, you can scribble or type out your initial phrases easily. We all do it, and you have to start somewhere, right? But for many, massaging that jumbled mess into something readable and interesting takes effort.
That’s why we humans invented full-time jobs like editor and proofreader.
Don’t let that last sentence scare you. No, you don’t have to hang a proofreader sign over your front door, but you can do justice to your written words — easily — before anyone else sees them.
