Writing is one hell of a task. And when I say Writing, I don’t just mean prose and poetry. Even when you write an essay of as little as 300 words, you’re likely to be more exhausted than Yoda, mentally. That goes to establish the fact that when you write, you create something with efforts.  It is therefore only obvious that you wouldn’t want a silly mistake or two in it to spoil the comprehensibility of the writing. This is where Proofreading walks in.

Proofreading may sound like a rather boring task which has definitely got something to do with grammar and spell-checks. But if you think about it, you’ll see that proofreading is really nothing but re-reading what you’ve Written, with a fresh perspective. It is important not only because it can show you some glaring mistakes in your writing which you may have otherwise forgotten, but also because it can lead you to make considerable changes in what you have written. Proofreading can often lead to paraphrasing which can then sublimate in making something that is already good, a tad better.

If you cannot proofread, or to put it more precisely, do not want to proofread, you can always opt for proofreading services. It is understandable why one wouldn’t want to re-read what they have written. One of the reasons behind this is, if it is something like an essay you have written after a lot of research, you grow nauseous to it by the time you finish it. In times as such, proofreading is therefore like going back to a psychotic ex-girlfriend’s apartment to collect your stuff. You don’t have to do that because this is exactly where proofreading services come in the picture and do all the job for you. Yet, if you can do it yourself, there’s nothing better than that.

There have been times when people have written long articles, forgetting some keywords in between sentences. When that happens, the whole meaning of the work is lost. If the reader is not going to understand what you have written, or worse, understand something that you didn’t want to convey, it is going to be a rather sad consequence. People forgetting to write stuff largely happens because your subconscious thinks you have written it all when you actually haven’t. If it is a facebook post or a tweet, it is cool because you can always delete it. But you cannot do the same mistake in your research papers or essays. English is a vast language with words that may mean entirely different things if you so much as misplace a comma. For this reason, it is important to proofread whatever you write. It would hardly take a few minutes. Sometimes, it may take more. But for what’s it worth, proofreading is a must-do.

Brendan Lawrence

The TrueEditors Team

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