Effective Proofreading

Perfect and polish the product

This course teaches hands-on, effective, and fast ways to:

identify necessary changes
ensure consistency
put the finishing touches on strong content

This training was presented extremely well. I have taken past training from other organizations that was not as effective. The activities and documents being ready to use as we moved through the workshop kept me engaged and helped to fortify the steps in proofreading.”

— Ministry of Education

Workshop details

We customize our workshops to your organization, team, documents, templates, and style guides

- In-person—Half day (3.5 hours)
- Live webinar—Half day (3.5 hours)
Anyone who proofreads or is the final stop for a document.
1. We meet with you to discuss your group's challenges and goals
2. You send us a series of representative documents
3. We analyze your documents
4. We customize our course material using excerpts from your documents

What you’ll learn

Improve thoroughness when proofreading
Speed up the finalizing process
Use software and AI effectively (and when not to rely on it)
Learn track changes in Word and Microsoft Editor
Receive useful proofreading checklists
Know what to check by hand
Align with templates and style guides
Create a consistent final product
Trick your brain into seeing things it might otherwise skip
Automate repeated tasks

Improve the consistency, speed, and accuracy of your proofreading

Use software to your advantage

Follow templates and style guides efficiently

Before taking this course, it took me three full days to finalize a briefing note…After being halfway through and learning new techniques, I finished a briefing note in an hour and a half with limited editing! This course is a huge win for me and the work I do daily, thank you!”

— Federal briefing note writer

Great workshop, I learned a lot and having BN examples that align so well with our work made it easy to see how to apply the suggestions. This will help me greatly when reviewing BNs for team members and other teams.”

— Alberta Education

This training was presented extremely well. I have taken past BN training from other organizations that was not as effective. The activities and documents being ready to use as we moved through the workshop kept me engaged and helped to fortify the steps in proofreading.”

— Alberta Education