Proofreading with SPAG

About the course

Learn about proofreading with SPAG, what is meant by this, how to use SPAG as part of your proofreading and how to write your own proofreading checklist. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.

Introduction

In this session we are going to look at the different ways you might proofread, or check through, different parts of your written work.

Proofreading is when you read back over a document that you have written – such as a letter or an essay, for example – and you double check that everything is written and punctuated correctly.
Most people will proofread their work multiple times, each time looking for separate things.

·       The first time you read your work you might be checking your spelling – is everything spelt correctly?
·       The second time you read through your work you might be checking your tenses – is everything written in the right tense? Is everything written in the same tense? And so on.
The main reason for proofreading your work is to check that what you have written is of the best quality that it can possibly be. Here are examples of what proofreading, again and again, can help check for.
·       The order we have written things in – does it make sense or could it have a better flow? Does it sound well thought-out or does it sound more like we got distracted halfway through?
·       The way we have written things – if we have handwritten our work then this might be a case of checking whether our writing is clear for someone else to read; this point might also encourage us to look at how we have phrased things and whether our meaning is coming across.

· Whether there are any mistakes – checking for mistakes is especially important as not only does this affect how clear your work is but it can also affect how professional your work looks as well.

You will learn

·       Understand what is meant by proofreading
·       Understand what is meant by SPAG
·       Know how to use SPAG as part of your proofreading

· Know how to write your own proofreading checklist

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